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Client-side name expansion

When a client needs to prompt the user for a conference (or person), it could offer the user several ways of specifying the conference:

• By conference number
• By name, using the lookup-z-name call.
• By name, using the re-z-lookup call.
• By name, transforming the string to a case insensitive regular expression, and then using the re-z-lookup call.

It is beyond the scope of this document to specify how the client interacts with the user.

The client should offer the user all the methods of specifying a conference listed above. At the very least, the two first methods should be supported.