The separation of the distributed operation of the
exchange of ``speech'' in the conference from the floor control
mechanism has led to the possibility of implementing an ``open floor''
conferencing system, and then adding floor control.
The only operations necessary to add floor control are those required
to allow or prevent use of a channel from each user to any other. The
extra state incurred in the conference server processes is the 2D matrix
of user by user channels, with each entry showing allowed/disallowed.
In the future, we hope to implement the floor control mechanisms
described and integrate them with the open floor conferencing system
we have. We will then be able to experiment with floor control.
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Figure: An Example of <#1324#> xconf<#1324#> in Action