Clarifications

pull/977/head
Erik Johnston 6 years ago
parent 463c71af82
commit 48d271e58c

@ -449,8 +449,9 @@ event (rather than based on their auth chain) are handled as usual by the
algorithm, unless otherwise specified.
Note that no events rejected due to failure to auth against their auth chain
should appear in the process, as they should not appear in state (and the
algorithm only uses events in one of the state sets or their auth events).
should appear in the process, as they should not appear in state (the algorithm
only uses events that appear in either the state sets or in the auth chain of
the events in the state sets).
This helps ensure that different servers' view of state is more likely to
converge, since rejection state of an event may be different. This can happen if
@ -461,7 +462,7 @@ consistent view of the state of the room. If the view of the state on different
servers diverges it can lead to bifurcation of the room due to e.g. servers
disagreeing on who is in the room.
Intuitively using rejected events feels dangerous, however:
Intuitively, using rejected events feels dangerous, however:
1. Servers cannot arbitrarily make up state, since they still need to pass the
auth checks based on the event's auth chain (e.g. they can't grant themselves

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