Thanks Peter,

That seems like a sensible change. I have prepared a corresponding
modification of the XEP here: https://github.com/xsf/xeps/pull/1359

Kind regards,

  Guus

On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 7:05 PM Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hallo Guus,
>
> On 7/5/24 8:49 AM, Guus der Kinderen wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > XEP-0045 Section 9.1 defines that:
> > - a user cannot be banned by an admin with a lower affiliation.
> > - if an admin or owner attempts to ban himself, the service MUST deny
> > the request.
> >
> > Section 9.2, that deals with modifying the ban list of a room
> > (potentially applying changes that affect more than one participant)
> > does not mention these cases. It stands to reason that similar
> > definitions must apply.
>
> Yes, I think Section 9.2 should at least refer back to the rules already
> defined in Section 9.1.
>
> > To me, this raises the question of dealing with ban list modification
> > requests that contain both 'valid' as well as 'invalid' modifications. I
> > do not believe that the XEP clearly specifies how to deal with these. I
> > would think that the entire request is to be rejected (as opposed to
> > only the 'valid' modifications' be applied). Can we add this explicitly
> > in the XEP?
>
> Because I believe there is no easy way to communicate to the sender
> which parts of the modification request are valid and which are invalid,
> I suggest that none of the requested changes should be applied until the
> request is corrected.
>
> Peter
>
>
>
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