On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Gavin Andresen via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
First:  the idea of 'weak blocks' (hat tip to Rusty for the term)

Here are some other "weak blocks" and "near blocks" proposals or mentions:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=179598.0
http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2013-July/002976.html
http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2013-September/003275.html
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=673415.msg7658481#msg7658481
http://gnusha.org/bitcoin-wizards/2015-08-20.log

more recently:
http://gnusha.org/bitcoin-wizards/2015-09-20.log
http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/scalingbitcoin/roundgroup-roundup-1/
http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/scalingbitcoin/bitcoin-block-propagation-iblt-rusty-russell/

- Bryan
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