[Standards] Proposed XMPP Extension: MUC Auto-Join

[Ian Paterson]

Rachel Blackman wrote:
>>>   may not want auto-invites, but I may want presence.  This is a great
>>>   thing because, let's say a conference server goes offline.  Boom, the
>>>   conference rooms vanish from my roster, and I know they're 
>>> unavailable.
>>>   When they're online, I just click on one and boom, I join.
>>
>> Right, you get that with a mutual subscription. The 'to' gives you 
>> entity capabilities, but nothing says you must make the subscription 
>> bidirectional.
> * Some method to do a 'from' presence subscription with a chatroom.  I
>
> True.
>
> I suppose you could display the conference room's return subscription 
> as a 'do you want to auto-join?' -- there'd need to be a way to toggle 
> that down the road (revoking subscription is easy enough, but you'd 
> need a method to convince the conference room to re-request it if you 
> decided you did want auto-join).  So I stand by my opinion that this 
> needs a bit more thought.
>

Yes. In this case, it would probably be enough to unsubscribe from the 
server (subscription='none') and then ask to subscribe again.

- Ian