Fix facts and words

Signed-off-by: Tulir Asokan <tulir@maunium.net>
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Tulir Asokan 4 years ago
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# Proposal to restrict allowed user IDs over federation
Currently the spec has [an appendice specifying allowed user ID grammar](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/appendices#user-identifiers).
Currently the spec has [an appendix specifying allowed user ID grammar](https://matrix.org/docs/spec/appendices#user-identifiers).
The spec makes it seem like user IDs can only consist of printable ASCII
characters, excluding space and `:`. However, the user ID grammar is not
actually a part of the event authorization rules, meaning most server
implementations will accept user IDs with arbitrary unicode characters.
Synapse, Construct and Dendrite will accept arbitrary unicode, while Conduit
believed the spec appendice and is therefore unable to join rooms with users
whose user IDs contain characters not allowed by the historical user ID grammar.
Synapse and Dendrite will accept arbitrary unicode, while Construct and Conduit
believed the spec appendix.
## Proposal
The proposed solution is applying the historical user ID grammar in step 5 of
@ -23,7 +22,7 @@ the room v1 event authorization rules. A new step is added between 5.a. and 5.b.
The changes are applied on top of room v6.
## Note about the user ID grammar spec
The user ID grammar spec appendice needs to be updated to mention that room
The user ID grammar spec appendix needs to be updated to mention that room
versions prior to this new version can contain arbitrary unicode user IDs,
so clients and servers must be able to handle such users.

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