Spell out that the proposal also concerns homeservers

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Brendan Abolivier 5 years ago
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@ -35,18 +35,19 @@ identity servers to follow the same policy regarding case sensitivity.
## Tradeoffs
Implementing this MSC in identity servers would require the databases of
existing identity servers to be updated in a large part to convert the email
addresses of existing associations to lowercase, in order to avoid conflicts.
However, most of this update can usually be done by a single database query (or
a background job running at startup), so the UX improvement outweighs this
trouble.
Implementing this MSC in identity servers and homeservers might require the
databases of existing instances to be updated in a large part to convert the
email addresses of existing associations to lowercase, in order to avoid
conflicts. However, most of this update can usually be done by a single database
query (or a background job running at startup), so the UX improvement outweighs
this trouble.
## Potential issues
Some users might already have two different accounts associated with the same
e-mail address but with different cases. This appears to happen in a small
number of cases, however, and can be dealt with by the identity server's maintainer.
number of cases, however, and can be dealt with by the identity server's or the
homeserver's maintainer.
For example, with Sydent, the process of dealing with such cases could look
like:

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