Clearly state how the users namespace relates to interest in events

Fixes https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/1307
pull/977/head
Travis Ralston 6 years ago
parent fd101b6ac9
commit 7caad61b86

@ -69,7 +69,13 @@ Registration
Application services register "namespaces" of user IDs, room aliases and room IDs.
These namespaces are represented as regular expressions. An application service
is said to be "interested" in a given event if one of the IDs in the event match
the regular expression provided by the application service. An application
the regular expression provided by the application service, such as the room having
an alias or ID in the relevant namespaces. Similarly, the application service is
said to be interested in a given event if one of the application service's namespaced
users is the target of the event, or is a joined member of the room where the event
occurred.
An application
service can also state whether they should be the only ones who
can manage a specified namespace. This is referred to as an "exclusive"
namespace. An exclusive namespace prevents humans and other application

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