[JDEV] Q: Non-anonymous conferencing?

[Jens Alfke]

Jabber's conferencing protocol seems biased in favor of anonymity, where 
clients are redirected through opaque temporary nicknames. This has its 
uses, but I'm interested in handling non-anonymous chat too, i.e. how to 
look up the real jid from a nickname. The specs allege that this can be 
done if the chat is set up to allow it, but don't say how. I assume that 
I send some kind of an <iq> query to the nick address, but as a rank 
newbie I'm unsure what this query would consist of.

Thanks,

--Jens