Client-To-Server Interactions: Accept/Reject

[cjslep]

Section 7.5 Server to Server Interactions: Follow Activity says:

The Accept or Reject MAY be generated automatically, or MAY be the result of user input (possibly after some delay in which the user reviews).

However, there is no corresponding guidance anywhere in 6. Client to Server Interactions for both Accept and Reject Activities, so organizationally it is non-intuitive to have to go to section 7.5 to learn that:

Servers MAY choose to not explicitly send a Reject in response to a Follow, though implementors ought to be aware that the server sending the request could be left in an intermediate state.

And since there is no explicit guidance on the Client to Server section, a spec-compliant implementation could also not deliver Accepts as well. (Since the MUST in 6.11 Delivery seems to be violated in quite a few places).

[evanp]

This is a useful note. I've added further documentation on the Follow, Accept, and Reject activities to the Primer to make it clearer what checks should be done, ideally, as well as what side effects the activities have.

https://www.w3.org/wiki/ActivityPub/Primer/Follow_activity
https://www.w3.org/wiki/ActivityPub/Primer/Accept_activity
https://www.w3.org/wiki/ActivityPub/Primer/Reject_activity

Given this additional documentation, I'm going to set this issue to pending.

[evanp]

This has been pending for 1 month. I'm going to close this ticket.