RE: [XCON] CPCP Requirement: Hidden Participants

[hisham.khartabil@nokia.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Michael Hammer [mailto:mhammer@cisco.com]
> Sent: 15.December.2003 18:17
> To: Khartabil Hisham (NMP-MSW/Helsinki)
> Cc: xcon@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [XCON] CPCP Requirement: Hidden Participants
> 
> 
> Related to this is there a requirement that, while not revealing the 
> identity of a hidden user, the conference policy contains 
> state indication 
> about either the presence of hidden users, or the 
> possibility/preclusion 
> that such hidden users may be present?
> 
> I am anticipating that:
> 1) Laws may exist that require notification of such.

That's a good point. This might require changes to the conference event package to indicate if there are hidden participants or not, and if so, how many.

The question remain: is there a need for such a feature (to hide users?)?

Regards,
Hisham

> 2) In some conferences, participants may want technical 
> assurance that 
> hidden users are not possible before they speak.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> At 02:55 PM 12/15/2003 +0200, hisham.khartabil@nokia.com wrote:
> >This is in reference to requirements REQ-A7 and REQ-E10 in 
> >http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-xcon-cpcp-reqs-00.txt
> >
> >    REQ-A7: It SHOULD be possible to participate in a conference as a
> >    hidden user. Hidden user is present in a conference, but 
> his presence
> >    is not revealed.
> >
> >    REQ-E10: It MUST be possible to allow and disallow 
> hidden membership
> >    in a conference.
> >
> >Should a conference policy, using CPCP, specify if a user 
> can be hidden? 
> >This means that the conference state package does not report the 
> >participation on the hidden user. CPCP is used to identify 
> which users are 
> >hidden. The list of hidden users is only manipulated by a 
> privileged user 
> >such as the moderator.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Hisham
> >
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