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[MLS] Async Add

Raphael Robert <raphael@wire.com> Mon, 21 September 2020 18:15 UTC

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Hi all,

Over the course of the past weeks when assessing how well MLS would fit into existing messengers, it became obvious that adding new members is still problematic. The operation – while technically asynchronous – still requires two parties to be online in many cases.

Rather than writing a lot of prose here, I attached a presentation that explains the problem and offers a potential solution.

I also created the following PR: https://github.com/mlswg/mls-protocol/pull/406
I will bring this up at the interim tomorrow for discussion.

Raphael

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