If the receiving server follows the process described in #9 of
  https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0178.html#s2s
which says that you do the authentication at this point (and then again
in #11) how can external fail?

If the receiving server can not authenticate the request its a policy decision to not offer external and maybe use dialback.

Am 30.06.20 um 17:59 schrieb Jonas Schäfer:
Hi list,

(Editor hat on)

On behalf of the Council, I’d like to bring this pull request to the attention
of the community:

https://github.com/xsf/xeps/pull/963

Input from server operators specifically would be welcomed to see if this
change is in fact desirable or if you can see any issues with that. At least
one member of the community has already expressed [1] that they think this may
lead to downgrade attacks.

kind regards and thank you,
Jonas

    [1]: https://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/standards/2020-June/037592.html


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