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Send abuse reports to an appservice via the transations API

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Description

We have an API for submitting abuse reports to the homeserver, where reading those reports is left as an exercise the the reader. It would be nice if we could re-use the AS transactions API to push those abuse reports to an interested party (hey Mjolnir!).

Obviously I'd imagine some kind of opt-in flag rather than every appservice seeing abuse reports, for security purposes. Something like a push_reports: true in the registration file.

(This is crying out for an MSC, but I lack the time atm).

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Research direction

Start by reading the existing abuse-report API and the appservice transactions API described in the issue. Determine the protocol and registration changes needed for an opt-in report destination, then document the behavior in an MSC and the Matrix specification; done means the proposal defines who receives reports and how the opt-in protects other appservices.

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Assessment

Domain
api, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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