As we deploy Openfire at MIT, we’'re also looking into ways multi-user chats can be integrated into other aspects of our infrastructure. Here are some features we would find desirable:
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The ability to run more than one MUC server with different policies on each, or alternatively the ability to run Openfire purely as a MUC server with no c2s or s2s. For examples, chatrooms for classes could live in a separate namespace which is set up with tighter controls than the generic conference server.
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The ability to allow only members of a particular domain to create chatrooms.
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The ability to allow only members of a particular domain to enter chatrooms, either on a per-chatroom basis or globally.
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The ability to restrict nicknames to match usernames, or something along those lines. Right now it may be possible to do this by configuring a chatroom “Members only” and “Only login with registered nickname,” but then you have to set up nicknames for each user. Moreover, as far as I can tell you can’‘t set up registrations for other users as a chatroom owner, and you can’'t even do this via the admin console; you would have to directly edit the database.
Thanks.