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summary: HS should be able to announce what URIs they can gateway
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created: 2015-07-09 23:14:32.0
creator: matthew
description: |-
  When designing the AS API (somewhere in the guts of https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/5 or an associated etherpad) Kegan and I discussed the idea of homeservers being able to advertise the capabilities of the ASes they have configured - especially if those ASes can act as a gateway to another network.  This in turn could be useful for clients to be able to 'do the right thing' automatically if asked to join a foreign URI, assuming they know what servers are available.

  This might involve advertising capabilities via well-known URIs (SPEC-121), tracking how URI->MXIDs are converted (SPEC-124), or the stuff which is meant to advertise what URIs a given room is bridged to (SPEC-131).
id: '11743'
key: SPEC-201
number: '201'
priority: '3'
project: '10001'
reporter: matthew
status: '10100'
type: '2'
updated: 2016-10-28 16:27:30.0
votes: '0'
watches: '2'
workflowId: '11844'
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actions:
- author: matthew
  body: '(Kegan: i would *love* to know where the original conversation about this went - I can''t find it anywhere :( )'
  created: 2015-07-09 23:42:18.0
  id: '11980'
  issue: '11743'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: matthew
  updated: 2015-07-09 23:42:18.0
- author: richvdh
  body: 'Migrated to github: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/527'
  created: 2016-10-28 16:27:30.0
  id: '13335'
  issue: '11743'
  type: comment
  updateauthor: richvdh
  updated: 2016-10-28 16:27:30.0