I'd like to see the security considerations expanded on this.

In particular, in the business rules it mentions the fact that if occupant-id isn't supported it could be spoofed. This should exist in the security considerations.

Also, I suspect the naive way to implement this will be to hash the bare JID. We probably want to mention that this is a bad idea and that these identifiers should be random (or we should explicitly define the security properties that are required if they're derived, which probably includes using a salt and ensuring high entropy).

—Sam

On 2024-05-08 05:20, Daniel Gultsch wrote:
This message constitutes notice of a Last Call for comments on
XEP-0421.

Title: Anonymous unique occupant identifiers for MUCs
Abstract:
This specification defines a method that allows clients to identify a
MUC participant across reconnects and renames. It thus prevents
impersonification of anonymous users.

URL: https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0421.html

This Last Call begins today and shall end at the close of business on
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