RE: [XCON] CPCP Requirement: Anonymous participants

["Rosen, Brian" <Brian.Rosen@marconi.com>]

I agree (1) is not necessary.

I think (2) is necessary to allow construction of a conference
control app that is independent of a conference service implementation.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: hisham.khartabil@nokia.com [mailto:hisham.khartabil@nokia.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 7:54 AM
> To: xcon@ietf.org
> Subject: [XCON] CPCP Requirement: Anonymous participants
> 
> 
> This is the first of a series of emails discussing Conference 
> Policy Requirements. Your engagement is appreciated.
> 
> This is in reference to requirements REQ-A6 and REQ-E9 in 
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-xcon-cpcp-reqs-00.txt
> 
>    REQ-A6: It SHOULD be possible to anonymously participate in a
>    conference.
> 
>    REQ-E9: It MUST be possible to allow and disallow anonymous
>    membership in a conference.
> 
> Should a conference policy, using CPCP, specify if anonymous 
> participants are allowed to join a conference? Or should this 
> be a local policy at the server?
> 
> There are 2 types of anonymous participants:
> 
> 1. ones that joins a conference using a http digest username 
> of "anonymous" and no password
> 2. ones that join with a proper username and password, but 
> hide their identity using anonynous@somewhere.com in the 
> From-header of a SIP INVITE. The conference state package 
> notifications shows them as anonymous participants.
> 
> I don't think we need to allow 1. Either a conference 
> requires everyone to know the username and password of the 
> conference, or does not require digest authentication at all.
> 
> 2 can be provided, but we need consensus that this is a 
> useful feature.
> 
> Regards,
> Hisham
> 
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