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MSC3572: Relation aggregation cleanup
MSC2675 documented how aggregation have been used in the ecosystem in spite of them not being part of the spec. This MSC addresses some issues that crept into that MSC because the original design of aggregations didn't receive enough feedback.
Proposal
Rename m.relations in unsigned to relations
m.relations is inconsistent with the other fields under the
unsigned
field.
the CNSIG is really meant for things that are very likely to be extended by client/server implementations. Event types are a good example; the contents of unsigned is not, really (particularly given everything else in unsigned does not use a prefix).
The thing that is particularly objectionable about m.relations is it means that
a single object (unsigned) contains a mix of namespaced and unnamespaced
identifiers.
For compatibility reasons, we should (temporarily) return both m.relations
and relations.