Notification Subscription Types

This document serves as an index for Subscription Types that can be used with the Solid Notifications Protocol.

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication.

This document was published by the Solid Community Group as Living Document. The sections that have been incorporated have been reviewed following the Solid process. However, the information in this document is still subject to change. You are invited to contribute any feedback, comments, or questions you might have.

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This section is non-normative.

The purpose of this document is to help with the discovery of Subscription Types published as a Solid Technical Report that can be used with the Solid Notifications Protocol [SOLID-NOTIFICATIONS-PROTOCOL].

This document also describes the indexing procedure to add new subscription types to the index.

This document is for:

• Resource server developers who want to implement subscription types.
• Application developers who want to implement a client to listen for updates using particular subscription types.

Conformance

All assertions, diagrams, examples, and notes are non-normative, as are all sections explicitly marked non-normative. Everything else is normative.

The key words “MUST” and “MUST NOT” are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

In order to update this index, an implementer MUST submit a modification request for this index, as a pull request on the repository where this index is hosted, where the modification request includes the following information:

Name

The name of the subscription type

Description

A short English description of the type's semantics.

Reference

Reference to the document that specifies the subscription type, preferably including a URI that can be used to retrieve a copy of the document.

The information in these documents may be subject to change, therefore please see each document’s publication status and versions for further details.

Subscription Types

Name	Description	Reference
WebSocketSubscription2021	Subscription type that uses the WebSocket API.	WebSocketSubscription2021