[bitcoin-dev] Generalizing feature negotiation when new p2p connections are setup

[lf-lists at mattcorallo.com]

Sure, we could do a new message for negotiation, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of reason for it - using the same namespace for negotiation seems fine too. In any case, this is one of those things that doesn’t matter in the slightest, and if one person volunteers to write a BIP and code, no reason they shouldn’t just decide and be allowed to run with it. Rough consensus and running code, as it were :)

Matt


> On Aug 20, 2020, at 22:37, Anthony Towns via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
> 
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