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2023-06-07 18:26:30
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Matt Corallo [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2020-08-21 📝 Original message:Hmm, could that not be ...

📅 Original date posted:2020-08-21
📝 Original message:Hmm, could that not be accomplished by simply building this into new messages? eg, send "betterprotocol", if you see a
verack and no "betterprotocol" from your peer, send "worseprotocol" before you send a "verack".

Matt

On 8/21/20 5:17 PM, Jeremy wrote:
> As for an example of where you'd want multi-round, you could imagine a scenario where you have a feature A which gets
> bugfixed by the introduction of feature B, and you don't want to expose that you support A unless you first negotiate B.
> Or if you can negotiate B you should never expose A, but for old nodes you'll still do it if B is unknown to them. An
> example of this would be (were it not already out without a feature negotiation existing) WTXID/TXID relay.
>
> The SYNC primitve simply codifies what order messages should be in and when you're done for a phase of negotiation
> offering something. It can be done without, but then you have to be more careful to broadcast in the correct order and
> it's not clear when/if you should wait for more time before responding.
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 2:08 PM Jeremy <jlrubin at mit.edu <mailto:jlrubin at mit.edu>> wrote:
>
> Actually we already have service bits (which are sadly limited) which allow negotiation of non bilateral feature
> support, so this would supercede that.
> --
> @JeremyRubin <https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin><https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin>;
>
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