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Persons are represented in the protocol by values of the type
Person. Associated with persons are statistics, a set of personal
flags and a set of privileges (see Security). Persons are also
associated with a conference that has the same number as the person and
the letterbox bit set.
Connections to the server are represented as values of the type
Static-Session-Info, Session-Info-Ident or
Session-Info. Sessions have session number that are unique for
each session in the lifetime of the server execution. A single user can
have several sessions running at once. The session is not released until
the network connection is closed; a user can log in and out repeatedly
in a single session.