[ticker-dev] Latest draft

[David Arnold]

-->"michael" == michael j lawley <lawley at dstc.edu.au> writes:

  >> DSTC is one organisation that has (or used to have) three
  >> distribution scopes: internal, participant, and public, as an
  >> example.  So something more than a simple toggle would be
  >> required there.

  michael> Indeed, think about the current Chat / chat.world situation
  michael> and all the hassle about federating Chat (and other
  michael> channels) with ITEE. 

Exactly.

  michael> Support for Distribution would have easily alleviated most
  michael> the problems involved and left the actual solution to the
  michael> discretion of the individual poster.

Depending on how it's used, yes.

  michael> In fact, this concept may also improve the idea of the
  michael> <username> channel if things were switched around to be the
  michael> "personal" channel with Distribution <username>.

This would only really work if organisations were happy to use a
default-allow policy.  Internal-only traffic would need to have
Distribution "internal" (or whatever) and would be blocked at the
organisational boundary.


The other question is whether the Distribution value should be a list,
or a single value.  I'm not sure there's a good use for a list ... ?





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