[Standards] Group Name with Gateway Registration

[Ian Paterson]

Ian Paterson wrote:
> Currently the name of the group that contacts will be added to tends 
> to be hardcoded on the gateway. This causes problems if there are 
> language issues or, more typically, if the user has two accounts on a 
> legacy service (accessed via two instances of a gateway server) - in 
> which case the contacts will end up being mixed within the same group.
>
> To solve this I'd suggest adding a new example (see [1] below) to 
> Section 7 "Contact Lists" that indicates how the client/user might 
> specify during registration a group name (see the "group" <field/> 
> below) that the gateway will use whenever it adds contacts to the 
> user's roster.

Someone mentioned offlist that some legacy services now support groups, 
and that some gateways now use these group names (instead of a single 
hardcoded group).

So it may be useful for the client to be able to indicate a 
prefix/suffix for all group names, instead of a single prefered group 
name. (A zero length prefix/suffix would be equivalent to no change to 
the group names at all.) I'd suggest a second additional field like the 
one in the examples below.

- Ian

SERVER SENDS:
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.
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  <field type='list-single' label='Group Name Modification' 
var='groupmodify'>
    <option label='Prefix'>
      <value>prefix</value>
    </option>
    <option label='Suffix'>
      <value>suffix</value>
    </option>
    <option label='Fixed'>
      <value>fixed</value>
    </option>
  </field>
  <field type='text-single' label='Group Name' var='group'>
    <value/>
  </field>
.
.
.

CLIENT SENDS:

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  <field var='groupmodify'>
    <value>suffix</value>
  </field>
  <field var='group'>
    <value> (Yahoo Work)</value>
  </field>
.
.
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