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From: Anthony Towns <aj@erisian.com.au>
To: Suhas Daftuar <sdaftuar@gmail.com>,
	Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Generalizing feature negotiation when new p2p connections are setup
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 12:36:47 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200821023647.7eat4goqqrtaqnna@erisian.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFp6fsE=HPFUMFhyuZkroBO_QJ-dUWNJqCPg9=fMJ3Jqnu1hnw@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 03:28:41PM -0400, Suhas Daftuar via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> In thinking about the mechanism used there, I thought it would be helpful to
> codify in a BIP the idea that Bitcoin network clients should ignore unknown
> messages received before a VERACK.  A draft of my proposal is available here
> [2].

Rather than allowing arbitrary messages, maybe it would make sense to
have a specific feature negotiation message, eg:

  VERSION ...
  FEATURE wtxidrelay
  FEATURE packagerelay
  VERACK

with the behaviour being that it's valid only between VERSION and VERACK,
and it takes a length-prefixed-string giving the feature name, optional
additional data, and if the feature name isn't recognised the message
is ignored.

If we were to support a "polite disconnect" feature like Jeremy suggested,
it might be easier to do that for a generic FEATURE message, than
reimplement it for the message proposed by each new feature.

Cheers,
aj



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-08-21  2:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-14 19:28 [bitcoin-dev] Generalizing feature negotiation when new p2p connections are setup Suhas Daftuar
2020-08-16 17:24 ` Jeremy
2020-08-16 19:06 ` Eric Voskuil
2020-08-17 20:40   ` Suhas Daftuar
2020-08-17 21:21     ` Eric Voskuil
2020-08-20 14:13   ` David A. Harding
2020-08-18 14:59 ` Matt Corallo
2020-08-18 16:54   ` Eric Voskuil
2020-08-18 17:26     ` Matt Corallo
2020-08-18 18:11       ` Eric Voskuil
2020-08-18 18:25         ` Matt Corallo
2020-08-18 18:56           ` Eric Voskuil
2020-08-21  2:36 ` Anthony Towns [this message]
2020-08-21  4:25   ` Eric Voskuil
2020-08-21 14:15   ` lf-lists
2020-08-21 16:42     ` Eric Voskuil
2020-08-21 19:50       ` Jeremy
2020-08-21 20:45         ` Matt Corallo
2020-08-21 21:08           ` Jeremy
2020-08-21 21:17             ` Jeremy
2020-08-21 22:16               ` Matt Corallo
2020-08-23 17:49                 ` Eric Voskuil
2020-08-24  9:44                   ` Suhas Daftuar
2020-08-24 13:59                     ` G. Andrew Stone
2020-08-24 19:58                   ` Jeremy
2020-08-24 20:17                     ` Eric Voskuil
2020-08-24 20:21                       ` Jeremy
2020-08-24 20:33                         ` Eric Voskuil
2020-08-21 21:17             ` Eric Voskuil
2020-08-23 17:45           ` Eric Voskuil

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