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XEP-0436: Updates based on list feedback 

- Create a separate tag for sending the version number
- Include a reset token
- Remove the "additional measures" section and merge parts into "Requirements"
- Mandate that presences are always sent for affiliated users
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<shortname>omnipresent-muc-affiliates</shortname>
&jcbrand;
&mwild;
<revision>
<version>0.2.0</version>
<date>2020-05-10</date>
<initials>jcb</initials>
<remark>
<p>Incorporate feedback from the standards list</p>
<ul>
<li>Create a separate tag for sending the version number.</li>
<li>Include a reset token.</li>
<li>Remove the "Additional measures" section and merge parts into "Requirements".</li>
<li>Mandate that presences are always sent for affiliated users.</li>
</ul>
</remark>
</revision>
<revision>
<version>0.1.0</version>
<date>2020-05-05</date>
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The notion of "room presence" is therefore less relevant than before, and in some cases can be done away with entirely.
</p>
<p>
Broadcasting all XEP-0045 MUC participants' presences to one another scales quadratically (O(n^2)) and can greatly increase the amount of network traffic, for potentially negligable gain.
Broadcasting all XEP-0045 MUC participants' presences to one another scales quadratically (O(n^2)) and can greatly increase the amount of network traffic,
for potentially negligable gain.
</p>
<p>
Even though the metaphorical concept of presence inside a room might no longer be relevant for a groupchat implementation,
&lt;presence/&gt; stanzas might still contain useful metadata, such as the user's affiliation or their &xep0317;.
&lt;presence/&gt; stanzas might still contain useful metadata, such as the user's affiliation or &xep0317;.
</p>
<p>
This XEP defines a versioning mechanism (similar to roster versioning in &rfc6121;) whereby the amount of presence traffic in a MUC may be greatly reduced.
It also describes additional measures which may be taken to further reduce the amount of presence traffic.
</p>
</section1>
<section1 topic="How it works">
<p>
A client that supports presence versioning needs to keep track and store the presence statuses of all MUC occupants, across multiple MUC sessions.
Similarly, a MUC service which supports presence versioning will also need to maintain a changelog of version numbers and presence states.
A client that supports MUC presence versioning needs to keep track and store the presence states of all MUC occupants, across multiple MUC sessions.
Similarly, a MUC service which supports presence versioning will also need to maintain a changelog of version numbers and corresponding presence states.
</p>
<p>
Before the client enters a MUC, it SHOULD use service discovery to check whether presence versioning is supported
(see <link url="#disco">determining support</link> below.).
If presence versioning is supported, the client MAY include a 'ver' attribute set to the last known presence version
in the &lt;{http://jabber.org/protocol/muc}x&gt; tag of the &lt;presence/&gt; stanza, which it sends to join the MUC.
</p>
<p>
If presence versioning is not supported by the server, the client MUST NOT include a 'ver' attribute.
If MUC presence versioning is supported, the client MAY include a &lt;version&gt; tag with a 'ver' attribute set to the last known version
inside the &lt;{http://jabber.org/protocol/muc#user}x&gt; tag of the &lt;presence/&gt; stanza, which it sends to join the MUC.
</p>
<p>
If MUC presence versioning is not supported by the server, the client MUST NOT include a 'ver' attribute.
</p>
<example caption='User specifies the last known presence version when seeking to enter a MUC'><![CDATA[
<example caption='User specifies the last known version when seeking to enter a MUC'><![CDATA[
<presence
from='hag66@shakespeare.lit/pda'
id='n13mt3l'
to='coven@chat.shakespeare.lit/thirdwitch'>
<x xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/muc' ver='ver14'/>
<x xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/muc#user'>
<version xmlns='urn:xmpp:muc-presence-versioning:0' ver='ver16' />
</x>
</presence>
]]></example>
<p>
The MUC will return only those presences that have changed since the version indicated by the client, and in the self-presence of the joining user it will add a
'ver' attribute with the latest version number on the &lt;{http://jabber.org/protocol/muc}x&gt; tag. The client must save the version number and use it next time it joins the MUC.
&lt;version&gt; tag with a 'ver' attribute set to the latest version number inside the &lt;{http://jabber.org/protocol/muc#user}x&gt; tag.
The client must save the version number (and continuously update with never versions as they're received) and use that next time it joins the MUC.
</p>
<example caption="Service Sends New Occupant's Presence to New Occupant"><![CDATA[
@ -96,7 +111,8 @@
from='coven@chat.shakespeare.lit/thirdwitch'
id='n13mt3l'
to='hag66@shakespeare.lit/pda'>
<x xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/muc#user' ver='ver16'>
<x xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/muc#user'>
<version xmlns='urn:xmpp:muc-presence-versioning:0' ver='ver17' />
<item affiliation='member' role='participant'/>
<status code='110'/>
</x>
@ -104,12 +120,14 @@
]]></example>
<p>
When presence versioning is enabled, every subsequent &lt;presence/&gt; stanza sent by the server MUST include a new version number, which replaces the existing one saved by the client.
When presence versioning is enabled, every subsequent &lt;presence/&gt; stanza sent by the server MUST include a new version number,
which replaces the existing one saved by the client.
</p>
</section1>
<section1 topic='Determining support' anchor='disco'>
<p>If a MUC implements presence versioning, it MUST specify the 'urn:xmpp:muc-presence-versioning:0' feature in its service discovery information features, as specified in &xep0030;.</p>
<p>If a MUC implements presence versioning, it MUST specify the 'urn:xmpp:muc-presence-versioning:0' feature in its service discovery information features,
as specified in &xep0030;.</p>
<example caption='Client queries for information about a specific MUC'><![CDATA[
<iq type='get'
from='romeo@montague.example/orchard'
@ -125,57 +143,74 @@
id='info1'>
<query xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/disco#info'>
...
<feature var='urn:xmpp:presence-versioning:0'/>
<feature var='urn:xmpp:muc-presence-versioning:0'/>
...
</query>
</iq>]]></example>
</section1>
<section1 topic='Requirements' anchor='requirements'>
<section2 topic='Always broadcast presence for affiliated users' anchor='affiliate-presence'>
<p>
A MUC that supports presence versioning MUST broadcast presence for all affiliated users, including those who are currently 'unavailable'.
<cite>XEP-0045</cite> documents the status code '102', which is used to indicate that a MUC shows unavailable members.
</p>
<p>
The only exception is when a MUC has been explicitly configured to only broadcast presence from occupants above a certain affiliation,
(see the <link url='https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html#enter-pres'>presence broadcast</link> section of <cite>XEP-0045</cite>).
</p>
<p>
In order for a user to permanently join a room, and therefore become affiliated so that they are included in presence broadcasts,
they MAY be allowed to register themselves as members in the MUC.
<cite>XEP-0045</cite> describes in <link url='https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html#register'>section 7.10 "Registering with a Room</link>
how a user may register themselves with a room, thereby receiving the "member" affiliation and having their preferred nickname reserved in that room.
</p>
</section2>
<section2 topic="Include a reset token when the client's version number has expired" anchor='reset-token'>
<p>
If a MUC receives a presence version number that's so old, that it no longer has the corresponding state available,
it MUST include a &lt;reset&gt; token in the first &lt;presence&gt; stanza it sends (regardless of whom in the MUC the presence relates to).
The first presence stanza MAY be from the MUC itself (as shown in the example below).
Afterwards, the MUC MUST then send all presences (including 'unavailable' for affiliated users) as if the client is starting from a blank slate.
</p>
<example caption="Service Sends a Reset Token"><![CDATA[
<presence from='coven@chat.shakespeare.lit'
id='r3s3t-m3'
to='hag66@shakespeare.lit/pda'>
<x xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/muc#user'>
<reset xmlns='urn:xmpp:muc-presence-versioning:0' ver='ver36' />
</x>
</presence>
]]></example>
</section2>
</section1>
<section1 topic='Business Rules' anchor='rules'>
<p>If a MUC receives a presence version number that's so old, so that it no longer has the corresponding state available, it needs to send all presence statuses back to the client.</p>
<p>
Even if the client did not include a &lt;version&gt; tag with a 'ver' attribute in its "join" &lt;presence/&gt; stanza,
the server SHOULD still return a &lt;version&gt; tag with 'ver' attribute (set to the latest version number)
on all relevant &lt;presence/&gt; stanzas.
This allows clients to bootstrap MUC presence versioning without having to do a service discovery query first.
</p>
<p>
If the client has not yet saved a presence version number and the corresponding presence states,
then it MUST bootstrap presence versioning by sending a 'ver' attribute set to the empty string (i.e., ver="").
</p>
<p>
Even if the client did not include a 'ver' attribute in its "join" &lt;presence/&gt; stanza, the server SHOULD still set a 'ver' attribute on the relevant &lt;presence/&gt; stanzas.
In some cases, the presence states being kept track of by the MUC service MAY be reduced to a minimum of only two states, 'available' and 'unavailable'.
This can drastically reduce the number of states the server needs to keep track off, at the cost of not allowing users to provide more fine-grained
reporting of their level of availability.
</p>
</section1>
<section1 topic="Additional measures">
<section1 topic="Security Considerations">
<p>
There are a number of &xep0045; features that a client and server may decide to configure and/or implement in order to further reduce the number of presence stanzas being sent around.
The MUC service should strip the &lt;version&gt; tag from the user's &lt;presence&gt; before relaying it to other occupants,
to avoid leaking information on when last the user joined the MUC.
</p>
<section2 topic='Only broadcast presence for affiliated users' anchor='affiliate-presence'>
<p>
A MUC MAY be configured to only broadcast presence from occupants above a certain affiliation,
(see the <link url='https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html#enter-pres'>presence broadcast</link> section of <cite>XEP-0045</cite>),
for example in a MUC where non-affiliated users are allowed to view the discussion but aren't allowed to send messages.
</p>
<section3 topic="Let users register themselves with a MUC">
<p>
This step can be taken in addition to letting users register themselves as members in the MUC.
XEP-45 describes in <link url='https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0045.html#register'>section 7.10 "Registering with a Room</link> how a user may register themselves with a room,
thereby receiving the "member" affiliation and having their preferred nickname reserved in that room.
</p>
</section3>
</section2>
<section2 topic='Restrict presence states to available and unavailable' anchor='restrict-states'>
<p>
In some cases, it makes sense to reduce the number of presence statuses to only a subset, in order to reduce to total amount of states the server needs to keep track off.
In the simplest case, this would mean keeping track only of two statuses, 'available' and 'unavailable'.
</p>
<section3 topic='Send presence stanzas for unavailable members' anchor='send-unavailable-presence'>
<p>
XEP-0045 documents the status code 102, which is used to indicate that a room shows unavailable members.
By also sending to newly joined users the presence stanzas of unavailable members,
it's possible to provide any necessary presence metadata of all relevant users in a groupchat and not just the currently "present" users.
</p>
</section3>
</section2>
</section1>
<section1 topic='IANA Considerations' anchor='iana'>