[Social] Roster Sequencing - with labels?

[Pedro Melo]

Hi,

On Mar 30, 2008, at 6:52 PM, anders conbere wrote:
> One of the ideas that came up in a recent discussion about wanting to
> be able to delegate (or authorize) third parties to act on and
> interact with our rosters was that if we had a "perfect" rollback
> solution that wouldn't be so bad. That got me thinking about the new
> roster sequencing XEP, and how if it supports labeling changes, then
> we could use that tool to label those changes as being made by a
> delegate, and rollback those changes as we see fit.
>
> This of course totally ignores the fact that we don't seem to have
> anything close to a delegation solution, but i thought it might be
> good to bring up that possible unforeseen use case up.

When something like this

http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/inbox/roster-versioning.html

gets deployed, you should have all the needed server-side  
infrastructure to do what you want. You would have to add the source- 
labeling part to each roster diff of course.

I don't know what interaction those third parties would have with my  
roster so I don't know if this is enough. But if third-parties want  
to suggest some roster change, maybe they could use this instead:

http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0144.html

This way, control is still kept on my client, and I can approve the  
changes before they are made.

Best regards,
-- 
Pedro Melo
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