From joseph at lightning.network Tue Feb 2 07:28:14 2016 From: joseph at lightning.network (Joseph Poon) Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 23:28:14 -0800 Subject: [Lightning-dev] Protocol for multiple in-flight updates. In-Reply-To: <87si1bnc4m.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> References: <878u34oi9q.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <87si1bnc4m.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> Message-ID: <20160202072809.GA6119@lightning.network> Hi Rusty, For synchronous across-the-wire commit steps, 3 steps is a good idea and more secure than 2 steps for the commit transaction. However, the nice thing about keeping everything asynchronous is it simplifies orchestration and no locking across-the-wire. We have a preliminary explanation on the git repo in the README.md file. -- Joseph Poon