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  <front>
    <title abbrev="XCON Chat">Chatrooms within a Centralized
    Conferencing (XCON) System</title>

    <author fullname="Mary Barnes" initials="M." surname="Barnes">
      <organization>Polycom</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street></street>

          <city></city>

          <region></region>

          <code></code>
        </postal>

        <email>mary.ietf.barnes@gmail.com</email>

      </address>
      
    </author>

    <author fullname="Chris Boulton" initials="C." surname="Boulton">
      <organization>NS-Technologies</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street></street>

          <city></city>

          <region></region>

          <code></code>
        </postal>

        <email>chris@ns-technologies.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>


    <author fullname="Salvatore Loreto" initials="S." surname="Loreto">
      <organization>Ericsson</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>
            Hirsalantie 11
          </street>

          <city>Jorvas  02420</city>

          <region>Finland</region>
        </postal>

        <email>salvatore.loreto@ericsson.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <date month="July" year="2013" />

    <workgroup>DISPATCH Working Group</workgroup>

    <abstract>
      <t>The document "A Framework for Centralized Conferencing" defines a
      centralized conference as both signaling and protocol agnostic. The
      primary examples within this framework focus on audio and video as the
      media types for the session. This document provides an overview of 
      the mechanisms defined in the centralized conferencing framework that can 
      be used to support multi-user chat. In addition,
      the document describes additional functionality and requirements necessary to 
      provide feature rich functionality.</t>
    </abstract>

    <!-- Abstract -->
  </front>

  <middle>
    <section title="Introduction">
      <t>
        A Centralized Conference as defined by the "A Framework for
        Centralized Conferencing" (XCON Framework) <xref target="RFC5239"></xref>
        is both signaling and protocol agnostic. The primary examples within the
        framework focus on audio and video as the media types for the session.
        This document provides an overview of the mechanisms and associated framework elements
        involved when text is the media for the conference. This
        functionality is often referred to as a "multi-user chat" as
        it enables a participant to join a chatroom (e.g. hosted by the conference server)
        for the exchange of messages between multiple participants. The message can be plain text
        or can contain different format for more advanced functionality.
      </t>

      <t>
        Several existing protocols support this multi-user chat functionality, such as
        Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) <xref target="RFC6120"></xref>,
        <xref target="RFC6121"></xref>
        and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) defined in <xref target="RFC1459"></xref> and its successors:
	<xref target="RFC2810"></xref>,<xref target="RFC2811"></xref>,<xref target="RFC2812"></xref>,
        <xref target="RFC2813"></xref>.
        In addition, <xref target="I-D.ietf-simple-chat"></xref> provides
        multi-user chat functionality for a purely SIP signaling based solution option
        using Message Session Relay Protocol (MSRP) <xref
      target="RFC4975"></xref>.
      </t>

      <t>
        The focus of this document is to describe the interface and provide guidelines for the
        the support of
        existing multi-user chat functionality on a conferencing system based on the XCON framework
        using the Conference Control Manipulation Protocol (CCMP)
        independent of the specific media type used by the chat client. 
      </t>

      <t>
        The functionality described in this document is not intended to
        replace any of the existing chat protocols, nor is it specifying a new chat protocol.
        The motivation for this document is to allow clients that use the conferencing framework model
        for other media types (e.g. voice/video) to utilize the same conference control mechanisms and
        conferencing system to establish, update and delete a chatroom associated with a 
        conference instance,
        independent of the chat protocol.
        This approach also allows the conferencing system to provide a natural 
        interworking point for various
        chat protocols - the details of the interworking are outside the scope of this document.
      </t>
    </section>

    <!-- Introduction -->

    <section anchor="sec:terminology" title="Conventions and Terminology">

      <t>
        The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
        "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
        document are to be interpreted as described in <xref
        target="RFC2119"></xref>.
      </t>
      
      <t>
        This document reuses the terminology defined in the Centralized Conferencing Framework 
        <xref target="RFC5239"></xref> and related protocol document <xref target="RFC6503"></xref>.
      </t>

      <t>Additional terminology used in this document:
      <list style="hanging">
      <t hangText="Chat Client:">a Conferencing Client as defined in <xref target="RFC5239"></xref>
        that participates in a "chatroom".</t>
      <t hangText="Chatroom:">A virtual space that users figuratively enter in order to participate in real-time, 
        text-based conferencing with other users.</t>
      <t hangText="Multi-user chat:">The functionality that allows multiple users to exchange messages in the context of a room or channel, 
        similar to Internet Relay Chat (IRC).</t>
      <t hangText="Private message:">A message sent from one participant directly to 
        another participant - i.e., not to the chatroom itself 
        to all participants.</t>
      </list></t>
    </section>

    <!-- Conventions and Terminology -->

    <section anchor="sec:pfoverview" title="Overview">
      <t>
        <xref target="fig:ClientConnect"></xref> provides a general
        illustration of chat clients having a direct, 1:1 connection to the
        conferencing system. Participants can use the chat clients to join
        a room associated with a conference instance and send messages.
        The conferencing system receives the messages sent from a
        client participating in a conference instance and then distributes them
        to the other clients associated with the conference instance, that are also
        present in the chatroom.
      </t>


      <figure anchor="fig:ClientConnect" title="Client Connection">
        <artwork>
          <![CDATA[
                           +--------+
                           |  Chat  |
                           | Client |
                           +--------+
                               |
                               |
                               |
                               v
   +--------+            +------------+            +--------+
   | Chat   |            |Conferencing|            |  Chat  |
   | Client |----------->|  System    |<-----------| Client |    
   +--------+            +------------+            +--------+
                               ^               
                               |
                               |
                               |
                           +--------+
                           | Chat   |
                           | Client |
                           +--------+                       
]]>
        </artwork>
      </figure>

      <t>
        The approach in this document is to have no impact on the existing chat
        protocols, while taking full advantage of the functionality provided by
        the centralized conferencing framework.
      </t>

      <t>
        A basic solution for MSRP based IM chat sessions is documented in
        <xref target="I-D.ietf-simple-chat"></xref>. It uses the concept of an
        "MSRP switch" as the centralized component, whose role is very similar
        to the Conferencing Server in this document. The solution in 
        <xref target="I-D.ietf-simple-chat"></xref> doesn't explicitly take advantage
        of the centralized conferencing framework model, as it primarily intends
        to make use of the basic SIP conferencing framework to provide the basic
        chat functionality. The MSRP based IM chat solution is compatible with
        the solution components described in this document, with no impact on
        that basic solution proposal. One of the advantages of applying the two
        solutions in concert would be to take advantage of the centralized conferencing
        framework model for advanced features, such as sidebars and private
        conferences, and manipulation of the conference data.
      </t>


      <t>XMPP assumes a decentralized client-server architecture similar to the one 
        shown in <xref target="fig:ClientConnect"></xref>, wherein a client utilizing 
        XMPP accesses a server and servers can also communicate with each other over
        TCP connections, similar to the email network. The XMPP server can provide
        as additional functionality the multi-user conferencing services 
        <xref target='XEP-0045'/>.
        The XMPP multi-user conferencing service is also compatible with the solution 
        components described in this document
        with no impact on the basic solution proposal. 
        Indeed, the centralized conferencing framework model
        is perfectly able to manage the XMPP strong room control model, including the 
        ability to kick and ban users,
        to name room moderators and administrators, to require membership or passwords in order to join the room.
	    However it is worth noting that the centralized conferencing framework does not encompass
        the communication
        between servers, as XMPP does. Thus, for the solution proposal in this document, 
        the XMPP client SHOULD only have a direct connection with the server hosting the chatroom instance, and 
        federations between
        servers SHOULD NOT be allowed.
        </t>



      <section anchor="sec:operations" title="Basic Protocol Operations">

	     <t>The multi-user chat protocol operations, such as create, join and delete
          can be performed using both
           non-signaling specific mechanisms or protocol specific mechanisms, if defined. 
           Non-signaling specific
          mechanisms are defined in the Centralized Conferencing Framework <xref target="RFC5239"></xref> 
          and related Conference Control Manipulation Protocol (CCMP) document
          <xref target="RFC6503"></xref>.  
          This document provides the details for the non-signaling specific mechanisms using CCMP 
          with detailed examples provided
          in <xref target="RFC6504"/>.
          Protocol specific mechanisms are defined in other documents such as for SIP in the
          SIPPING Conference Framework <xref target="RFC4353"></xref> 
          and for XMPP in Multi-User Chat <xref target='XEP-0045'/>.
  </t>

	<t>The privilege to create a chatroom associated with a conference instance can be restricted to 
         certain users or 
          can be reserved to an administrator of the conference. The room creation 
          can be performed using non-signaling mechanism 
          or protocol specific mechanism if defined.  In the case of CCMP, a confRequest message with a 
          "create" operation is sent by the chat client. </t>

        <t>A participant can query the conferencing system to discover the list of the chat rooms 
        associated with a hosted conference instance.  In the case of CCMP, a blueprintsRequest message 
        for the chatrooms supported by a conferencing system or a confsRequest message for the active
        chatrooms can be
        sent by the chat client.</t>

        <t>In order to participate in the discussions held in a multi-user chat room, 
          a participant MUST first enter the room.
          A chat client wishing to enter a chatroom associated with a conference instance
          MAY use a non-signaling
          or protocol specific mechanism if defined. In the case of CCMP, a participant MUST
          join a conference instance using the mechanisms which are described in 
          <xref target="RFC6503"></xref> - e.g., userRequest message with a "create" operation
          to be added to a conference instance. 
      </t>

        <t>
          The request to send a message is specific to the chat protocol (e.g., MSRP SEND). 
          Upon receipt of a request to send a message,
          the conferencing system replicates and forwards the message to all other 
          chat clients that are participants 
          of the chat room. Depending upon policy, a conferencing system MAY ignore or reject messages, 
          in which case they are 
          not distributed to the other
          chat room participants.  
        </t>

	      <t>A participant MAY send a "private message" to a selected participant or a group of participant.
          This privilege SHOULD be
          allowed for all participants unless local policy dictates otherwise. 
        </t>

        <t>
          A chat client wishing to exit a chat room uses a non-signaling mechanism or protocol
          specific mechanism, if defined.
          If the chat client is the last to exit, the conferencing system
          can be responsible for deleting the room or the originator/owner/moderator
          The privilege to delete a chatroom associated with a conference instance 
          can be restricted to certain users or
          can be reserved to an administrator of the conference. 
          The room deletion can be performed using non-signaling mechanism
          or protocol specific mechanism if defined. In the case of CCMP, the client
          MUST send a CCMP confRequest message with an operation of "delete".
        </t>

      </section>

      <!-- operations  -->

      <section anchor="sec:identifiers"
               title="Chat Session and Conferencing Identifiers">
        <t>
          As highlighted in the overview section, a chat client connecting to
          a conferencing system has a 1:1 relationship with the chat signaling
          entity, each having a unique protocol specific chat session identifier (chat-ID). When
          referring to chat-IDs the document is making reference to the
          locally (at conferencing system) generated chat-ID used for 
          session signaling identification. An important concept in
          this proposal is the creation and management of Group Chat sessions. It is
          important that each chat session created, as identified by a unique chat-ID,
          is explicitly tied to an associated conference.   
          The Centralized Conferencing Framework 
          <xref target="RFC5239"></xref> introduces the concept of a
          conference user identifier which is defined in 
          <xref target="RFC6501"></xref>. When a user joins a
          conference instance through the signaling protocol, the user is allocated an 
          appropriate conference user identifier either through authentication or
          system allocation. The conference user identifier is           
          represented by the 'entity' attribute of a <user> element in the <users> element
          in the conference information.  
          The association of the chat-IDs is 
          accomplished by including each of the chat-IDs 
          in the conference information in the 'entity' attribute of an <endpoint> element 
          in the <user> element. 
          The conference information as a whole is uniquely 
          identified within the conferencing system by an XCON-URI, thus providing the relevant
          association between a chat session and a centralized conference.          
                 
          <xref target="fig:advanced_bindings"></xref> shows the logical repesentation of 
          the chat-IDs with the 
          conf-userIDs, with each row in the table
          representing a single entry.
        </t>

        <figure anchor="fig:advanced_bindings"
                title="Session Association">
          <artwork>
            <![CDATA[
	
+-------------------------------------------------+
|           XCON-URI: 711331@example.com          |
+-----------------------+-------------------------+
|      Chat-ID=8asjdhk  |  xcon-userid: 839ULjj   |
|      Chat-ID=38iuhds  |  xcon-userid: 0283hHu   |
|      Chat-ID=djiowid  |  xcon-userid: ncH37Hs   |
|      Chat-ID=389hewu  |  xcon-userid: pakdjjH   |  
+-----------------------+-------------------------+                     
                               
	]]>
          </artwork>
        </figure>

        <t>
          A more complex session association is necessary due to potential
          for a user to have multiple group chats in a single conference
          instance, such as multi-lingual conference support. In an example with
          SIP and MSRP, the conference representation in <xref
          target="fig:advanced_bindings"></xref> allows for such functionality
          when separate SIP dialogs represent MSRP sessions. This process
          becomes complex in the case that multiple SDP MSRP media sessions (m=) are defined
          in a single payload. This internal representation needs expanding
          to enable a conferencing system to explicitly associate a media
          session (m=). This involves including the media label, as defined in
          <xref target="RFC4574"></xref>, to maintain the internal conference
          association. An example is illustrated in <xref
          target="fig:advanced_bindings2"></xref>.
        </t>

        <figure anchor="fig:advanced_bindings2"
                title="Advanced Session Association + Media Label">
          <artwork>
            <![CDATA[
	
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
|                XCON-URI: 711331@example.com                    |
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
|      Chat-ID=8asjdhk  |  xcon-userid: 839ULjj   | Label=iede3  |
|      Chat-ID=38iuhds  |  xcon-userid: 0283hHu   | Label=8heus  |
|      Chat-ID=838unaH  |  xcon-userid: 0283hHu   | Label=3cnu7  |
|      Chat-ID=djiowid  |  xcon-userid: ncH37Hs   | Label=jd38J  |
|      Chat-ID=389hewu  |  xcon-userid: pakdjjH   | Label=U83hd  |
|      Chat-ID=Ko03jdk  |  xcon-userid: pakdj7H   | Label=ehy3h  |  
+----------------------------------------------------------------+                 
                               
	]]>
          </artwork>
        </figure>

        <t>
          In <xref target="fig:advanced_bindings2"></xref>, conference user
          identifiers '0283hHu' and 'pakdj7H' appear twice. The combination of
          multiple conference user identifiers and a unique chat-ID
          enables the conference system to clearly identify a specific Group Chat
          instance.  Even in the simplest conferencing system, where
          users are allowed to enter anonymously, the internal representation
          described in this section should be observed. In this case, the
          conferencing system would still internally create a conference user
          identifier for participant reference purposes.
        </t>
      </section>

      <!-- identifiers  -->
    </section>


    <section anchor="sec:AdvancedOperations" title="Advanced Operations">
      <t>
        Advanced chat
        features, such as sidebars and private messages can also be supported
        within the context of
        the centralized conferencing framework using CCMP. 
        Additional protocol details for
        these advanced features are provided in <xref target="RFC6504"></xref>.
      </t>


    </section>

    <!-- Advanced  -->

    <section anchor="sec:AdditionalOperations" title="Additional Operations">
      <t>
        This section discusses additional operations or features required to
        provide chat room functionality. Most of the operations are not
        explicitly defined in the centralized conferencing framework. While
        most of the features and operations are achievable using the XCON data model 
        <xref target="RFC6501"/>
        and data maintained
        by a conferencing system per the XCON framework, some advanced features
        require extensions to the XCON data model 
        and may be optimized with more discrete CCMP messages.
      </t>

      <section anchor="sec: Nicknames" title="Nicknames">
        <t></t>

        <t>
          Nicknames allow a user to define a text string that uniquely
          identifies the user within a particular chatroom without necessarily
          reflecting any protocol specific identity (e.g., SIP URI, Conference
          User Identifier, etc.).  It is also important to note that the functionality
          to provide nicknames is not limited to users involved in chatrooms,
          thus it should be a general feature of the conferencing system.
        </t>

        <t>
          Within a conferencing system, all nicknames MUST map to a
          conference user identifier. The nicknames are unique only to
           the specific conferencing system.
           To ensure uniqueness of nicknames, any new
           'nickname' created MUST be compared with nicknames
           already in use or reserved following the rules defined in Preparation
           and Comparison of Nicknames <xref target="I-D.ietf-precis-nickname" />.</t>          
           
          <t> There may be multiple nicknames associated
          with a single conference user identifier (e.g., a user that has
          different nicknames for different chat rooms and/or voice/video
          conferences).  In order to support nicknames, a 'nickname' attribute is defined in the 
          XCON data model within the <user> element. A 'nickname' 
          can be assigned to the conference 
          user when an XCON-USERID is assigned to the user. 
          The conferencing client MAY include a preferred nickname in the CCMP userRequest with a
          "create" operation.
           
        </t>

        <t>  The conferencing system allocates a conference user identifier
          and a nickname using system specific mechanisms, which can also include 
          authentication.  The conferencing system MUST associate the assigned 
          nickname with the specific
          conference user identifier that has been allocated by updating the conference information.  
          Another option would be to define a new CCMP message to just manipulate the
          'nickname' element, but that is not necessary.</t>

          <t>
            As described <xref target="sec:identifiers"/>, the XCON-userid identifier is used in
            conjunction with a chat-ID to internally represent a
            participant in a conference instance. This association is created when a
            conferencing client requests to create or join a specific chatroom. The nickname 
            allocated for the specific conferencing user identifier MUST also be associated with 
            the chat session ID. 
            <xref target="fig:nickname_bindings"></xref>
            provides an example of the association between the 
            chat session identifier, the conference user identifier and conference nickname
            for a specific Group Chat represented by the conference identifier. 
        </t>

        <figure anchor="fig:nickname_bindings"
                title="Nickname Associations for a Group Chat">
          <artwork>
            <![CDATA[
	
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|                XCON-URI: 711331@example.com                     |
+-------------------+---------------------------------------------+
|  Chat-ID=8asjdhk  |  xcon-userid: 839ULjj  | nickname=Alice     |
|  Chat-ID=38iuhds  |  xcon-userid: 0283hHu  | nickname=Bob       |
|  Chat-ID=838unaH  |  xcon-userid: 0283hHu  | nickname=CliffyBob |
|  Chat-ID=djiowid  |  xcon-userid: ncH37Hs  | nickname=Dude      |
|  Chat-ID=389hewu  |  xcon-userid: pakdjjH  | nickname=Elliott   |
|  Chat-ID=Ko03jdk  |  xcon-userid: pakdj7H  | nickname=Fluffy    |  
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+                         
                               
	]]>
          </artwork>
        </figure>

        <t>
        Depending
        upon the conferencing system, the conference system either allocates the  
        preferred nickname for that user or 
        allocates a different nickname.  The nickname MUST be included
        in the CCMP userResponse message.
      </t>
        
        <t>In the future, if a more generic nickname mechanism is available, rather than 
        provide nicknames that
        are specific to the conferencing system, a conferencing system may 
        interface with a nickname registry, for 
        example, in order to allocate a new nickname for a specific conferencing client.  
        This change in how 
        a conferencing system allocates nicknames should not impact the 
        CCMP protocol interface to support nicknames.
      </t>
      </section>

      <!-- Nickname-->

      <section anchor="sec:Logging" title="Logging">
        <t>
          A common chat feature involves logging the history of a chat room.
          This provides a record of a chat room that can be used when a user
          first joins a chat room as discussed in <xref target="sec:History"></xref>. 
          It can also be used to provide a complete capture of a specific chat room session. 
          When a participant enters a room in which the discussions are logged, the conferencing system
          MUST warn the participant that the discussions are logged.
        </t>
        <t>
          The centralized conferencing framework does not fully describe the role of recording
          or logging of active conferences. However, this functionality can be
          realized with the manipulation of the appropriate elements in
          the data model using the general conference control protocol
          operations. One approach for implementing this function would be to
          have it be based on specific manipulation of the conference by a user
          with the appropriate permissions
          (i.e., confRequest messaage with an "update" operation to start and stop recording).
          Another mechanism for implementing this function would be to have a specific
          user as part of the conference to perform this function, and having the media proxied to a
          logging device. In the case of systems that support the Media Control archictecture
          <xref target="RFC5567"></xref> and 
          SIP Control Framework <xref target="RFC6230"/>
          along with the specific Mixer control package 
          <xref target="RFC6505"/>, 
          the addition of a user to proxy the media for recording is described in 
          section 6.2.3 in <xref target="I-D.ietf-mediactrl-call-flows"/>   
        </t>
      </section>

      <section anchor="sec:History" title="History">
        <t>
          A common chat feature allows users to view the past history of chat
          rooms. This operation is common when a user first joins a chat room
          that is underway. A user is often offered the option to review a
          specific number of past messages. 
        </t>
        <t>
          Conferencing systems that maintain
          the history associated with specific chat rooms through logging, as
          described in <xref target="sec:Logging"></xref>, should provide a
          mechanism, using the conference identifier, to access the specific
          information requested by a user based on a specific timestamp.
          The user request for the information
          and the rendering of the information is specific to the user's session
          based messaging protocol and may not be supported by all the messaging
          protocols.
        </t>
      </section>

      <section anchor="sec:AlternateVenue" title="Indicating Alternate Venue">
        <t>
          Another chat room feature provides the details of an alternate chat
          room venue for previously active chat rooms that have been closed,
          with a related topic. While not detailed in the centralized
          conferencing framework, this functionality can be accomplished by
          creating the new chat room as a child or sibling of the previous chat
          room and providing the Active chat conference object identifier to any
          valid users that attempt to join a previous chat room. The information
          about the new chat room can also be provided at the end of a chat room
          that is being de-activated at the end of the session.
        </t>
      </section>

      

       <!-- File Transfer-->

      <section anchor="sec:FileTransfer" title="File Transfer">
        <t>
          The ability to send files to a selected participant or group of participants
          is another common functionality, supported by messaging protocols.
          This functionality also enables the exchange of information (e.g. name, size, and date)
          about the file to be transferred and usually provides a mechanism to show an
          image thumbnail for files such as photos. This capability could be reflected in the 
          conference data (in the conference instance) and requires at least an extension to the 
          "available-media" element.  The thumbnail rendering of the image is outside the scope of 
          the data model and is specific to the client application.  Additional functionality to support
          this capability requires further study. 
        </t>
      </section>

       <!-- Real Time Collaboration -->

      <section anchor="sec:RealTime" title="Real Time Collaboration">
        <t>
         The messaging protocols can be used, and are being used, 
         in applications quite different from a simple exchange of
         text messages between two participants in the context of a chatroom. 
         Real-time collaboration tools (e.g. Whiteboarding,
         screen-share, co-browse or document-share) are some of these applications. 
        </t>
        <t>
          The Conferencing Systems are usually bound to Real-time collaboration tools
          to increase the productivity of distributed teams.  In terms of correlating this
          functionality with CCMP, the mechanisms for
          manipulating the conference are the same in terms of updating the data associated
          with the conference
          with the additional attributes to reflect the multiple sources of media for the chatroom.
          This capability could be reflected in the
          conference data (in the conference instance) with an extension to the
          "available-media" element.  Some current systems using SIP embed the attributes
          in the media stream.  Overall, supporting this functionality requires further study, 
          in particular with regards to the RTCWeb initiative as described in documents such 
          as <xref target="I-D.ietf-rtcweb-use-cases-and-requirements" />
        </t>
      </section>

    </section>



    <section title="Security Considerations">
      <t>
        As discussed in the Centralized Conferencing Framework, there are a
        wide variety of potential attacks related to conferencing, due to the
        natural involvement of multiple endpoints and the many, often
        user-invoked, capabilities provided by the conferencing system. Examples
        of attacks associated with chatrooms includes the
        following: an endpoint attempting to receive the messages for
        conferences in which it is not authorized to participate, an endpoint
        attempting to disconnect other users, and theft of service, by an
        endpoint, in attempting to create conferences it is not allowed to
        create.
      </t>

      <t>
        Since this document describes the use of existing protocols (i.e.,
        MSRP/SIP, CCMP, XMPP, etc.), it depends on the
        security solutions for those protocols and the associated authorization
        mechanisms. This solution is based on the Centralized
        Conferencing framework and makes use of the policy associated with the
        conference object to ensure that only authorized entities are able to
        manipulate the data to access the capabilities. This solution also makes
        use of the privacy and security of the identity of a user in the
        conference, as discussed in the Centralized Conferencing Framework.
      </t>
    </section>

    <!-- Security Considerations -->

    <section title="IANA Considerations">
      <t>This document requires no IANA registrations.</t>

    </section>

    <section title="Acknowledgments">
      <t>
        The authors appreciate the input and comments from Miguel
        Garcia-Martin and Dave Morgan.
      </t>
    </section>
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 	  <front>
 	    <title>Multi-User Chat</title>
 	    <author initials="P." surname="Saint-Andre" fullname="Peter Saint-Andre">
 	      <organization/>
 	      <address>
 	        <email>stpeter@jabber.org</email>
 	      </address>
 	    </author>
            <date month="July" year="2008"/>
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