摘要 |
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to validating a specified identity for a participant to a chat session and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for trusted contact name validation for an instant messaging session. In one embodiment of the invention, an instant messaging contact name validation method can be provided. The method can include establishing a trusted relationship among at least two instant messaging servers in a trusted community of instant messaging servers, receiving a request to add a specified contact to a list of instant messaging contacts in association within one of the instant messaging servers in the trusted community of instant messaging servers, and validating the specified contact with another of the instant messaging servers in the trusted community of instant messaging servers.
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