We give an explicit characterization of all injective subsets of the model space $l_{ \infty}(I)$ for a general set $I$, in terms of inequalities involving $1$-Lipschitz functions. Since the class of all injective metric spaces coincides with the one of all absolute $1$-Lipschitz retracts, the present work yields a characterization of all the subsets of $l_{ \infty}(I)$ that are absolute $1$-Lipschitz retracts.
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