From rusty at rustcorp.com.au  Tue Nov 21 03:05:11 2017
From: rusty at rustcorp.com.au (Rusty Russell)
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 13:35:11 +1030
Subject: [Lightning-dev] Bi-directional or uni-directional?
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Alan Carbery via Lightning-dev <lightning-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org>
writes:
> Hi,
>
> All the tutorials that I've read about Lightning describe bi-directional
> channels.  However, reading through the draft RFC I'm wondering if it's
> uni-directional only.  Can anyone clarify if this is the case and if so then
> is there a reason for not doing bi-directional channels in the first
> release?

No, they're bidirectional!  It's just that each side sends a batch of
updates followed by a commitment, then the other side replies with an
ack.  Both sides can do that independently and it all works out.

Hope that helps!
Rusty.