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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=120225018-27092001>>>
</SPAN>To answer Scott Cote: obviously the final implementation would be decided
in the JIG. </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=120225018-27092001>>>
</SPAN>But it would probably be based on the jabber network. So for instance, to
login to a </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=120225018-27092001>>>
</SPAN>website/service you would provide your Jabber network address ( i suggest
this as a </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial><SPAN class=120225018-27092001>>>
</SPAN>more user friendly name JID ) and then your jabber server would be
contacted to authenticate.</FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT size=2><FONT
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<DIV><FONT><SPAN class=120225018-27092001></SPAN><FONT face=Arial size=2>A<SPAN
class=120225018-27092001>h, now I see. That makes perfect sense.
Thanks.</SPAN><BR></FONT></FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=120225018-27092001>>> </SPAN>However, like I've said before, we
should recognise that this is bigger than Jabber. If we </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=120225018-27092001>>>
</SPAN>define a protocol, it should be sufficiently abstracted to allow bindings
to other protocols </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=120225018-27092001>>>
</SPAN>as well, therefore allowing interoperability.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=120225018-27092001><FONT face=Arial size=2>Even
better.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=120225018-27092001><FONT face=Arial
size=2>-Scott</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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