Presence and IntComm WG

["Michael R. Gettes" <>]

Exactly!  Wouldn't it be nice if Identity Assurance were
presented as part of presence???  Is it possible to convince
people to extend presence info to include IA info?  I think
this would be a HUGE contribution to the internet as a whole.

Peter?

/mrg

On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:47, Shumon Huque wrote:

> If we become a part of a PIC federation and want the identity
> assurance property to hold for the limited set of federation
> participants (but still allow communication with arbitrary
> XMPP services), then the jabber service needs to have some
> mechanism to communicate that assurance to it's participants,
> eg. that 
>
>  is a PIC federation vetted JabberID,
> but 
>
>  is not. Otherwise I wouldn't find it that
> useful. How would this be accomplished? I can imagine a few
> ways. But the client interface needs to indicate it to the user
> in some fashion.
>
> One somewhat compelling use case that was discussed recently is
> the use of a federated authorization system to construct members-
> only (eg. PIC/Internet2 members-only) chat rooms.