[Simple] Chat Nicknames

[Cullen Jennings <fluffy at cisco.com>]

I might be missing the boat here but let me ask a question that separates
stuff. 

Is there a requirement to be able to change you nickname on every message or
would it be acceptable to set up a new session if you want to change you
nickname?

It seems that the name could be set when you set up the session. If this is
the case, then the display name of the From is very clear you can put any
alias you want in it. The chat controller can tell you that name is not
acceptable thought, in practice, there is no fundamental reason you can't
have people with the same nickname and just have the conf server append
something to make them unique.

RTP/RTCP had different requirements for this because you could join a
multicast session with effectively no signaling with all the participants so
there was a need to continuously and adaptively flow the name information as
the conference changed. Since this this centralized conferencing, you can
get the names from the centralized thing.

Say two people joined with nick name of anon. The chat mixer may identify
them as anon1 and anon2 in the session and you can send a private message to
one of them by sending to location for anon2 (which would be an anonymous
perhaps on the same box as the mixing was happening on).

Cullen
 









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