Hello everyone,

I just submitted https://github.com/xsf/xeps/pull/1426 with a rendered
version at https://nicoco.fr/inbox/spaces.html

This is an attempt at a minimal "spaces XEP".

I remember reading a document a long time ago which looked impressively
complete but did not turn into a XEP proposal. I suspect this is because
the document attempted to cover everything, and there are very different
use-cases for spaces, with different permissions models, ranging from
fully public to completely private through "some rooms are public but
some require being part of a subteam" etc. I tried a different approach
here, attempting to lay the foundation of what is the minimum to cluster
several groupchats without relying on a dedicated MUC service just for that.

The slidge-based gateways for discord, mattermost and matrix already
implement listing the "servers", "teams" and "spaces" of these networks
via adhoc commands. I would very much like to make this a bit more
generic (and standardised!) in slidge "core", the gateway library (and
also expose in the disco#info of each room which "space" it is a child of).

About the name, I called it "server-side spaces" because I think what
Gajim already does with its workspaces is great and should be
standardized at some point too, that would be another XEP, maybe
"client(or user)-side spaces", later.

I already gathered a little feedback from the xsf@ room, and
incorporated it in the present submission.

Looking forward to reading your feedback.

-- nicoco

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