MSC3419: Allow guests to send more event types (#3419)
* MSC3419 - Guest state events Let guests send state events. Needed for guests to work with native group voip in #3401 * typo * Update 3419-guest-state-events.md incorporate @clokep clarification * also let guests send non-m.room.message events in general. * Update proposals/3419-guest-state-events.md Co-authored-by: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com> * Update proposals/3419-guest-state-events.md Co-authored-by: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com> * wordwrap Co-authored-by: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>pull/977/head
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# Guest State Events
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## Problem
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Currently guest users are not allowed to create arbitrary state events. This is
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a problem for [MSC3401](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3401),
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where it would be useful for guests to be able to create `m.call.member` events
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in order to participate in a call.
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## Proposal
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Let guests send arbitrary state events much like a normal user. Servers may rate
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limit state events from guests much more aggressively to mitigate abuse.
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We also relax the existing requirement that guests are only allowed to send
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`m.room.message` events, instead allowing them to send any kind of event
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allowed by the room's power level configuration as if they were a normal user.
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## Security considerations
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The only reason that guests are denied from performing certain operations is to
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avoid malicious unauthorised users consuming resources and causing a DoS. In
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this instance, sending state events can be quite resource intensive, so if we
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didn't have a good use case that needed them it'd be right to veto them.
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Also, by default, users (guest or otherwise) can't send state events, which
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further reduces the risk of abuse. Instead, a room intended for guest-capable
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voice/video rooms as per MSC3401 would explicitly set a powerlevel to let users
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send `m.call.member` events. This MSC would simply make it then permissible
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for guests to send as well as non-guests, subject to the powerlevels.
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## Alternatives
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Rather than using guest access, apps could use shared secret registration to
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work around this limitation. However, that feels like a different MSC.
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