Surfacing Discussions w/in a legacy portal

We'd like to use Discussions in a legacy intranet web site. I'm assuming we could do that via an <iframe> wth a URL pointing back to a Discussions instance.
The discussions instance will continue be used when we move from the legacy web site to web center.
Does the following make sense:
- bring up webcenter spaces
- create a non-skinned page containing discussions
- configure the discussions instance
- put the url to the discussions page w/in the <iframe> on the existing web site
A caveat is that we'd want users to login, authenticated against A/D, when posting. Presumably thats handled by the spaces instance discussion is "running" in.
Some of the webcenter services docs refer to 10g from 2007. I'm assuming the newer tech is significantly different.
Any thoughts welcome. Thanks ...

Thanks George ...
This may be due to the confusion of dealing with webcenter but the Discussions you refer to is part of the Collab Suite which is/is not part of web center ? You're referring to http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B25553_01/collab.1012/b25492/discussions.htm , yes ?
If it is part of web center then we can place the discussions forum in the legacy web site before we move the legacy site to spaces. We also have user auth the same as web center. I'm assuming using Collab suite discussions means user auth is different than web center.
Also, we aren't licensed for Collab Suite.

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