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