propose alternative to openRegistration to indicate open registration with additional requirements

[6543]

as spam rises more instances do have individual registration prozedures like mail me at XY or ping me via ZY

[jhass]

I think openRegistrations can stay as is, maybe rewording its description slightly to emphasize self-service registration is possible.

It'll probably be hard to capture and keep up with all alternative methodology people come up with. Also frankly I doubt any statistical or survey value in knowing whether the registration scheme is say some individual creating accounts for friends and strangers or for example an organizational instance that allows sign up via the organizations SSO.

So my idea here would be to just have an optional field like registrationRequirements that should link to a document outlining the registration process for this instance. Aggregators can then show registrations as for example "Open" / "Closed" / "Restricted" based on the combinations of openRegistration and the presence of that new field. Though there might be some ambiguity in what openRegistration: true with that field set would mean that we would need to define and clarify in the standard.

What do you think?

[6543]

I was also going tobpropose something that just contain link(s) as we shoud not statically definebsomething as there are to many options ;)

=> i agree

As for registrationRequirements idea, i would say add to openRegistration that it should be true, if optional registrationReq. are set. Or that parsers should ignore it if regis.Req. are set