[JDEV] Group-chat administration.

[bacchusrx]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:58:46AM +0300, Alon Weinstein wrote:
> The main issue I'm concerned about is group-chat administration. In the 
> project I am required to provide an Administrator figure for all 
> group-chats. This administrator should have the ability to 
> allow/disallow people from joining the group-chat, and to allow/deny 
> people from taking certain actions (such as start/stop recording the 
> sessions).

Have a look at JEP-0045 (Multi-User Chat), here:

http://www.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0045.html

It is intended to replace GroupChat and does (or could) support most of
what you need. It is still a draft proposal, however.

> Is this possible using the XMPP protocol, or will I have to extend it to 
> allow such features? Also -- will I be able to use an existing server, 
> such as Jabberd, to provide such features?

There's the mu-conference project on jabberstudio.org. It's an
implementation of the current MUC draft for jabberd.

bacchusrx.

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