[Standards-JIG] Re: Pre-Proto XEP - Karma

[Alexander Gnauck]

yes, +1 from me

Chris Mullins wrote:
> I was looking to see what exists today for standards around Karma, and I 
> didn’t see anything. I know many servers today implement rate limiting, 
> but as far as I can tell, each does it differently.
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> This seems like it would make a great XEP, and allow for a richer model 
> of communication within the entire federated XMPP network.
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> Some of the things that come to mind are:
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> -          Max Connections from a single IP Address.
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> -          Max Connections per second / minute / hour / day from a 
> single IP Address
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> -          Max Connections from a Subnet. Also per second / minute / 
> hour / day
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> -          Max Connections per second / Max simultaneous resources for a 
> user
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> -          Max login attempts per second / minute / hour / day from a 
> bare JID
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> -          Total bytes sent / received from a full JID. Also per second 
> / minute / hour / day
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> -          Bytes sent / receive from a single IP and/or Subnet. Also per 
> second / minute / hour / day
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> -          Stanzas sent/received from a full JID. (Also per time interval)
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> -          Stanzas sent by a Bare JID. (also per time interval).
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> All of this needs a discovery protocol, so that clients can 
> enable/disable features based on karma. For example, IBB probably isn’t 
> a good idea on a server with karma restrictions.
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> It would also be good to allow different users (and categories of users) 
> to have different karmic settings. (Anonymous connections very low, 
> standard connections normal, compressed connections higher, etc).
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> Thoughts? Is this something that seems worth moving forward with?
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> Chris Mullins
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