[Lightning-dev] Comments on BOLT#11

[Jameson Lopp]

HTLC.me is run by Alex Bosworth; I'll ping him.

On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 6:44 PM, Jonathan Underwood <
junderwood at bitcoinbank.co.jp> wrote:

> iirc they are using the description as a way to join the user data and the
> payment hash on their end.
>
> htlc me is one node but separates its balance into user accounts that
> exist outside lightning. I think the identifier is used so when their
> backend checks the payment request status, the user info is right there in
> their local lnd RPC response rather than having to store their own database
> separately.
>
> 2017年12月16日(土) 8:31 Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>:
>
>> Jonathan Underwood <junderwood at bitcoinbank.co.jp> writes:
>> > Additional comment: we should make a requirement to hide text in the
>> > description under certain conditions.
>> >
>> > ie. "A reader MUST hide information surrounded by curly brackets {}
>> > including
>> > the brackets themselves from the UI, and only make the information
>> avaiable
>> > internally."
>> >
>> > I think a lot of people will want to include extra data in their payment
>> > requests' description.
>> >
>> > I think HTLC.ME uses it and maybe bitrefill? (correct me if I'm wrong.)
>>
>> OK, HTLC.ME (cool site!) uses a description of:
>>
>>         {"generic_id":"ada00363-50b6-4281-82dd-d274393439f1"}
>>
>> Which I really don't understand.  This field is literally only to
>> display to the user, for them to validate it's what they wanted.  The
>> recipient never gets it back.
>>
>> If I knew who ran HTLC.ME, I'd ask them to fix it: they should have a
>> description entry field in their "Request Payment" form.  It could
>> default to "Test payment ada00363-50b6-4281-82dd-d274393439f1", but
>> they're in spec violation at the moment.
>>
>> > Perhaps adding an "extra data" tag?
>>
>> Easy to do, if I knew why they wanted it.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Rusty.
>>
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