<section2topic='Server side requirements'anchor='server-side'>
<p>While OMEMO uses a Pubsub Service (&xep0060;) on the user’s account it has more requirments than those defined in &xep0163;. The requirements are:</p>
<ul>
<li>The pubsub service MUST persist node items.</li>
<li>The pubsub service MUST persist node items, i.e., the <linkurl='https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html#features'>feature 'persistent-items'</link> is announced by the service.</li>
<li>The pubsub service MUST support publishing options as defined in <linkurl='https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0060.html#publisher-publish-options'><cite>XEP-0060</cite> §7.1.5</link>.</li>
<li>The pubsub service MUST support 'max' as a value for the 'pubsub#persist_items' node configuration.</li>
<li>The pubsub service MUST support the 'open' access model for node configuration and 'pubsub#access_model' as a publish option.</li>