I have wondered (and I think Matthew Wild may have also wondered about this, lest I appear to be stealing his ideas), about mapping <status/> and possibly <show/> onto (pseudo) PEP nodes. This would mean a couple of things: - You could set an ACL for <status/> quite easily, though it'd be very much all or nothing. - With some handwaving involving collections acting as leaf nodes (pay no attention to the man behind the curtain), you could get a situation where two differently permissioned child nodes were used to feed a single item into the pseudo-leaf pseudo-node (eek!), which resulted into different endpoints seeing a different <status/>. At least the basic pseudo-node stuff feels generally worthwhile to me, and if there's interest I'll try my best to spec it out into a proper XEP. Dave.