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### Have a dedicated ephemeral user state section ### Have a dedicated ephemeral user state section
Early prototypes of this proposal devised a key-value map with timeouts maintained over EDUs rather than PDUs. Early prototypes of this proposal devised a key-value map with timeouts maintained over EDUs rather than PDUs.
This early proposal had much the same feature set as this proposal but with one major difference: equivocation. This early proposal had a similar overall feature set as this proposal but with two differences:
- The early proposal never persisted anything, whereas this one persists by default to the DAG (which could be deleted via message retention).
Some use cases would like to have persistence.
- The lack of any persistence enabled equivocation attacks.
Servers could broadcast different values for the same key to different servers, causing the map to not converge: Servers could broadcast different values for the same key to different servers, causing the map to not converge:
the Byzantine Broadcast problem. Matrix already has a data structure to agree on shared state: the room DAG. the Byzantine Broadcast problem. Matrix already has a data structure to agree on shared state: the room DAG.
As such, this led to the prototype to the current proposal. By putting the data into the DAG, other servers As such, this led to the prototype to the current proposal. By putting the data into the DAG, other servers

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