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2023-06-09 13:12:42

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📅 Original date posted:2023-02-17
🗒️ Summary of this message: The discussion is about the development and design of protocols, and the need for neutral approaches to ensure decentralization.
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As long as protocol development and design is done neutrally, I'm all fine!

Le ven. 17 févr. 2023 à 10:48, Joost Jager <joost.jager at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Right, that was my above point about fetching scoring data - there's three
>> relevant "buckets" of
>> nodes, I think - (a) large nodes sending lots of payments, like the
>> above, (b) "client nodes" that
>> just connect to an LSP or two, (c) nodes that route some but don't send a
>> lot of payments (but do
>> send *some* payments), and may have lots or not very many channels.
>>
>> (a) I think we're getting there, and we don't need to add anything extra
>> for this use-case beyond
>> the network maturing and improving our scoring algorithms.
>> (b) I think is trivially solved by downloading the data from a node in
>> category (a), presumably the
>> LSP(s) in question (see other branch of this thread)
>> (c) is trickier, but I think the same solution of just fetching
>> semi-trusted data here more than
>> sufficies. For most routing nodes that don't send a lot of payments we're
>> talking about a very small
>> amount of payments, so trusting a third-party for scoring data seems
>> reasonable.
>>
>
> I see that in your view all nodes will either be large nodes themselves,
> or be downloading scoring data from large nodes. I'd argue that that is
> more of a move towards centralisation than the `ha` flag is. The flag at
> least allows small nodes to build up their view of the network in an
> efficient and independently manner.
>
> Joost
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