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rewrite UI auth tradeoffs

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David Baker 2019-06-28 10:25:24 +01:00
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proposals/2140-terms-of-service-2.md
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@ -259,9 +259,10 @@ to their own MXIDs.
This introduces a different way of accepting terms from the client/server API
which uses User-Interactive Authentication. In the client/server API, the use
of UI auth allows terms acceptance to be integrated into the registration flow
in a simple and backwards-compatible way. Indtroducing the UI Auth mechanism
into these other APIs would add significant complexity, so this functionality
has been provided with simpler, dedicated endpoints.
in a simple and backwards-compatible way. Another option here would be to use
UI Auth on the register endpoint. This would also not allow users to register
before accepting the terms. However, this would then make the OpenID
registration process different and non-standard.
The `m.accepted_terms` section contains only URLs of the documents that
have been agreed to. This loses information like the name and version of