Avoiding abuse via false `parent` claims

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Richard van der Hoff 4 years ago
parent 839ea0e946
commit 109c31c2c8

@ -136,10 +136,10 @@ relationship can be expressed in one of two ways:
start peeking into the parent space, enabling it to find other rooms in
that space and group them together.
XXX how do we avoid abuse where randoms claim that their room is part of a
space it's not?
XXX do we need an "order" in this direction too?
To avoid abuse where a room admin falsely claims that a room is part of a
space that it should not be, clients could ignore such `m.room.parent`
events unless their sender has a sufficient power-level to send an
`m.room.child` event in the parent.
This structure means that rooms can end up with multiple parents. This implies
that the room will appear multiple times in the room list hierarchy.

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