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From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net, Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 09:17:39 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed new P2P command and response:
	getcmds, cmdlist
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On Saturday 16 Jun 2012 02:34:53 Amir Taaki wrote:
> Introspection/command discovery is nice, but I would prefer it to be
> immediately done in the first version exchange so no assumptions as to
> how a network is operating need to be made.

That would need a change of the current version message.  So why not make 
the change be simply: one of the service bits indicates that "getcmds" is 
available?

Then the version message doesn't need any on-the-wire change.


Andy

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