Continue moving content out of docs/model/presence into the main spec; delete model docs that are duplicated

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Presence
========
A description of presence information and visibility between users.
Overview
========
Each user has the concept of Presence information. This encodes a sense of the
"availability" of that user, suitable for display on other user's clients.
Presence Information
====================
The basic piece of presence information is an enumeration of a small set of
state; such as "free to chat", "online", "busy", or "offline". The default state
unless the user changes it is "online". Lower states suggest some amount of
decreased availability from normal, which might have some client-side effect
like muting notification sounds and suggests to other users not to bother them
unless it is urgent. Equally, the "free to chat" state exists to let the user
announce their general willingness to receive messages moreso than default.
Home servers should also allow a user to set their state as "hidden" - a state
which behaves as offline, but allows the user to see the client state anyway and
generally interact with client features such as reading message history or
accessing contacts in the address book.
This basic state field applies to the user as a whole, regardless of how many
client devices they have connected. The home server should synchronise this
status choice among multiple devices to ensure the user gets a consistent
experience.
Idle Time
---------
As well as the basic state field, the presence information can also show a sense
of an "idle timer". This should be maintained individually by the user's
clients, and the homeserver can take the highest reported time as that to
report. Likely this should be presented in fairly coarse granularity; possibly
being limited to letting the home server automatically switch from a "free to
chat" or "online" mode into "idle".
When a user is offline, the Home Server can still report when the user was last
seen online, again perhaps in a somewhat coarse manner.
Device Type
-----------
Client devices that may limit the user experience somewhat (such as "mobile"
devices with limited ability to type on a real keyboard or read large amounts of
text) should report this to the home server, as this is also useful information
to report as "presence" if the user cannot be expected to provide a good typed
response to messages.
Presence List
=============
Each user's home server stores a "presence list" for that user. This stores a
list of other user IDs the user has chosen to add to it (remembering any ACL
Pointer if appropriate).
To be added to a contact list, the user being added must grant permission. Once
granted, both user's HS(es) store this information, as it allows the user who
has added the contact some more abilities; see below. Since such subscriptions
are likely to be bidirectional, HSes may wish to automatically accept requests
when a reverse subscription already exists.
As a convenience, presence lists should support the ability to collect users
into groups, which could allow things like inviting the entire group to a new
("ad-hoc") chat room, or easy interaction with the profile information ACL
implementation of the HS.
Presence and Permissions
========================
For a viewing user to be allowed to see the presence information of a target
user, either
* The target user has allowed the viewing user to add them to their presence
list, or
* The two users share at least one room in common
In the latter case, this allows for clients to display some minimal sense of
presence information in a user list for a room.
Home servers can also use the user's choice of presence state as a signal for
how to handle new private one-to-one chat message requests. For example, it
might decide:
"free to chat": accept anything
"online": accept from anyone in my addres book list
"busy": accept from anyone in this "important people" group in my address
book list
API Efficiency
==============

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user's clients, and the home server can take the highest reported time as that
to report. When a user is offline, the home server can still report when the
user was last seen online.
Device Type
-----------
Client devices that may limit the user experience somewhat (such as "mobile"
devices with limited ability to type on a real keyboard or read large amounts of
text) should report this to the home server, as this is also useful information
to report as "presence" if the user cannot be expected to provide a good typed
response to messages.

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``last_active_ago``, which gives the relative number of miliseconds since the
message is generated/emitted, that the user was last seen active.
Home servers can also use the user's choice of presence state as a signal for
how to handle new private one-to-one chat message requests. For example, it
might decide:
- ``free_for_chat`` : accept anything
- ``online`` : accept from anyone in my addres book list
- ``busy`` : accept from anyone in this "important people" group in my
address book list
Transmission
------------
.. NOTE::
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are likely to be bidirectional, HSes may wish to automatically accept requests
when a reverse subscription already exists.
As a convenience, presence lists should support the ability to collect users
into groups, which could allow things like inviting the entire group to a new
("ad-hoc") chat room, or easy interaction with the profile information ACL
implementation of the HS.
Presence and Permissions
------------------------
For a viewing user to be allowed to see the presence information of a target