On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:53 PM, XMPP Extensions Editor <edi...@xmpp.org> wrote: > Version 0.1 of XEP-0317 (Hats) has been released. > > Abstract: This specification defines a more extensible model for roles and > affiliations in Multi-User Chat rooms. > > Changelog: Initial published version approved for publication by the XMPP > Council; clarified ad-hoc commands logic and syntax. (psa) > > Diff: N/A > URL: http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0317.html
This has some interesting applications, such as specialized privileges for chat participants wearing a "hat". For example, a set of teacher/lecturers in a MUC room could be granted a special "hat" in a MUC room. Specialized privileges could also include real-time text (XEP-0301) or the ability to present certain types of media that other chatroom participants aren't allowed to do so to prevent distractions from the main people of focus in the online MUC classroom. It appears hats could provide a mechanism to do this without necessarily granting room administrator privelages which can lead to security issues, DDoS or disruption (from, say, troublemaking students). Chat clients would be optimized to recognize specific hats (labels to be standardized at a future time) as granting permission to do certain things in in the chat software. A student "raising a hand" in a MUC (/me raises hand) can be temporarily given a special hat, that temporarily grants them these privelages of presenting rich media to the chatroom in a controlled way. Mark Rejhon
