[Social] Roster Sequencing - with labels?

[Peter Saint-Andre]

anders conbere wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter at stpeter.im> wrote: 
>>  This sounds similar to remote/shared roster groups -- I allow some other
>>  entity to modify a portion of my roster. So for instance if you are a
>>  member of the XSF -- and you guys really should be, we have an open
>>  membership application period right now! [1] -- then your "XSF" group
>>  could be maintained by the Secretary of the XSF and therefore it would
>>  be automatically updated when new members are elected. We have been
>>  thinking about this kind of feature for a long time. Most of the XMPP
>>  server implementations have it but not in a distributed way -- they tie
>>  it to LDAP groups inside an organization so that when Suzy joins the
>>  marketing department or Bill gets fired in QA, your roster changes
>>  without any interaction on your part. Doing this in a decentralized
>>  manner is a bit harder, but I'm interested in solving the problem.
> 
> This sounds close, I suspect that details about my specific use cases
> could be ironed out in the broader XEP discussions. That particular
> discussion sounds like it's about modifying a group of roster items
> that would be distributed to a set of users, where as mine would only
> be distributed to a single particular user. This sounds like a subset
> of the functionality of the above but I'm interested in at least
> recognizing that use case before looking into solutions.

Sure, in your use case there's only one subscriber to the remote roster
group. Just a special case.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
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