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I've identified three areas I felt we touched on in today's discussion
and want to make some notes about where IM fits in each one.

I feel that part of the challenge in our discussion is that a deployment
touches on many issues. It's a broad discussion and some requirements
are likely to conflict with others.

Hopefully these categories are useful and help to further our discussion.

1) Identity Management

While IM doesn't define your identity, as we commonly think of it, IM
does leverage identity. The concepts of pseudononimty we've defined
fall into the area of identity management for the IM space. Such a

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Note: these are thoughts that I've been trying to develop for a while.
I'm not getting far. will publish them now.

Whenever I read the use cases the back of my mind suggests there is
something general about them that crosses the IM boundary into other app
areas. I've been thinking about this for a while but don't know if I
can convey this idea consisely. I'll give some examples.

I was glancing over a privacy article IEEE Internet Computing recently
and a couple of sentances stood out. I think they encapsulate my
feeling nicely, so before I try to do too much explaining I'll let you

The uptake on the IM availability has been a little slow. 34 folks so far. be nice if it would grow. Added a featured projects block (maybe should call it featured pages) to highlight some of the more tangible results of our work.

This is the starting point for all the on-line chat client documentation.

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This beta Instant Messaging service is built on top of Jabber/XMPP the IETF instant messaging standard. XMPP supports a global communication network of service providers. GMail as well as many universities support Jabber-based IM. This IM service is part of the global XMPP network, therefore, you can IM people from any of these service providers using your well-known BlazerId-based identity.

These are some quick and dirty instructions for configuring your instant messaging (IM) client software.

* The first step, of course, is to use your BlazerId to [register for your IM account|http://metric.it.uab.edu/im/register]