16. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 14 , wherein the step of returning to the application program the value indicative of the success/failure of the peer identity get XML call comprises a step of returning an error indicative that the pointer is NULL.
14. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , wherein: the step of receiving the peer identity management call comprises receiving a peer identity get XML call having the one or more corresponding call parameters comprising the identity name and a pointer to a location to which a string containing an XML fragment with information about a peer identity corresponding to the identity name is returned; and the step of returning to the application program the value indicative of the success/failure of the peer identity management call comprises returning to the application program a value indicative of the success/failure of the peer identity get XML call.