If a recipient is a Collection or OrderedCollection, then the server MUST dereference the collection (with the user's credentials) and discover inboxes for each item in the collection.

Requirement

If a recipient is a Collection or OrderedCollection, then the server MUST dereference the collection (with the user's credentials) and discover inboxes for each item in the collection.

Origin

The origin of this requirement is a quote from the ActivityPub specfiication:
prefixThe inbox is determined by first retrieving the target actor's JSON-LD representation and then looking up the inbox property.
If a recipient is a Collection or OrderedCollection, then the server MUST dereference the collection (with the user's credentials) and discover inboxes for each item in the collection.
suffix Servers MUST limit the number of layers of indirections through collections which will be performed, which MAY be one.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ , § 7.1

id

urn:uuid:66d5b416-7660-48c8-884b-fda5e26b28e8

uuid

66d5b416-7660-48c8-884b-fda5e26b28e8

Full JSON

{
  "id": "urn:uuid:66d5b416-7660-48c8-884b-fda5e26b28e8",
  "uuid": "66d5b416-7660-48c8-884b-fda5e26b28e8",
  "type": "Behavior",
  "content": "If a recipient is a Collection or OrderedCollection, then the server MUST dereference the collection (with the user's credentials) and discover inboxes for each item in the collection.\n",
  "tag": [
    {
      "name": "ActivityPubServer",
      "id": "https://socialweb.coop/tag/ActivityPubServer"
    }
  ],
  "context": [
    "https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/",
    {
      "name": "7. Server to Server Interactions",
      "id": "https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#server-to-server-interactions"
    },
    {
      "name": "7.1 Delivery",
      "id": "https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#delivery"
    }
  ],
  "origin": {
    "source": "https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/",
    "section": {
      "id": "https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#delivery",
      "branch": [
        7,
        1
      ]
    },
    "selector": {
      "type": "TextQuoteSelector",
      "prefix": "The inbox is determined by first retrieving the target actor's JSON-LD representation and then looking up the inbox property.\n",
      "exact": "If a recipient is a Collection or OrderedCollection, then the server MUST dereference the collection (with the user's credentials) and discover inboxes for each item in the collection.\n",
      "suffix": "Servers MUST limit the number of layers of indirections through collections which will be performed, which MAY be one.\n"
    }
  },
  "@context": [
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams",
    "https://socialweb.coop/ns/testing/context.json"
  ]
}

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