RE: [XCON] CPCP Requirement: Anonymous participants

[hisham.khartabil@nokia.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Ben Campbell [mailto:bcampbell@dynamicsoft.com]
> Sent: 18.December.2003 23:04
> To: Khartabil Hisham (NMP-MSW/Helsinki)
> Cc: xcon@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [XCON] CPCP Requirement: Anonymous participants
> 
> 
> hisham.khartabil@nokia.com wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Will you ever want to distinguish between the priviledges of an 
> anonymous partitipant and those of non-anonymous participants?

If we go with (2) only, then I don't see the need to do so.

/Hisham

> 
> > 
> > 2 can be provided, but we need consensus that this is a 
> useful feature.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Hisham
> > 
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