XMPP Roster Filtering

Hello,

I am struggling with a particular usage pattern that would really be helped if the XMPP spec provided the ability to allow the client to request only a subset of their roster by groups or eventually a filter query.

The basic idea is that say my roster is comprised of groups A-J and these groups relate to particular social groups within the hosting application.

So let’s say I am in group A and I only want to see presence notifications from those within group A. As it stands now it seems like I am stuck getting notifications from groups A-J (The summation of my roster) and just ignoring all those from groups B-J. 

But In this scenario 90% of the server work and generated traffic would be wasteful which is what I am trying to avoid.

I realize I am still lacking a mechanism for dynamically changing the roster view post-login but one thing at a time. So I would appreciate any insight or thoughts you may have on this.

thanks,

-paul

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