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yet? do they have plans? I'm (relatively) a fan of their platform because of federation, but I thought that it's not really possible, or at least a very much lot of hard work and even more to change that
I don't remember the statement in the bug report verbatim, but it indicated that they intend to fix it, which is about what I had previously seen on other issues that they did subsequently fix. I expect it's mainly a matter of prioritizing a long to-do list.
I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't be possible. The protocol is continually evolving, after all, and they already moved message content to an encrypted channel that didn't originally exist. Moving other events into it seems like a perfectly sensible next step in that direction.
I was in the impression that the protocol was designed with that in mind that the server can do certain things in response to certain other things happening. I think the room membership management part of the client spec writes about this.
But yeah, this can probably change, especially that they are now doing versioning
Worth mentioning just in case you're not aware: versioning is present not just on the protocol spec, but on individual rooms. That ought to ease any semantics changes that might be needed.
I think the hardest part is the DNS and federation
I don't understand, could you reword it?
DNS requires public records and the federation meets sharing information between lots of servers.