From decker.christian at gmail.com Thu Jan 11 23:06:26 2018 From: decker.christian at gmail.com (Christian Decker) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:06:26 +0000 Subject: [Lightning-dev] Descriptive annotations visible to intermediate nodes In-Reply-To: References: <87608h35uh.fsf@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Benjamin, yes, there was a BOLT#6. It was a trivial bootstrapping mechanism I set up using IRC (like the original bitcoin client), but we retired it in favor of DNS seeds and gossiping. Cheers, Christian On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 5:40 PM Benjamin Mord wrote: > > Thanks Christian. I'm reading the BOLTs and reviewing source code now, so > perhaps my question / request will be more usefully specific once I've > finished that review. Sorry for being vague as to use case for now, let me > just point out that the concept of source routing opens up a lot of > potential use cases that involve collaborations with intermediaries of > various sorts, but for which flexible communication capability would be > desirable or required (unless you do that out-of-band, which would be so > messy as to largely defeat the point.) > > I'm impressed so far by how cleanly and explicitly the BOLTs address > extensibility. I find that reassuring, many thanks to whoever applied their > technical creativity to this aspect. > > Was there a BOLT #6? > > On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:13 PM, Christian Decker < > decker.christian at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Benjamin, >> >> currently the only piece of information that is kept contstant along the >> entire route is the payment hash, and we will be removing that as well >> in order to further decorrelate hops of a payment and make it harder for >> forwarding nodes to collate hops into a route. >> >> As ZmnSCPxj has pointed out we do have the possibility of adding some >> information in the onion packet. You can even give every single hop its >> very specific information in the onion. Say for example you have a node >> that does currency conversion, you may specify the desired exchange rate >> in the onion. >> >> May I ask what use-case you are looking to implement using this feature? >> >> Cheers, >> Christian >> >> Benjamin Mord writes: >> > Are there, or will there be, annotations one can add to a lightning >> > transaction that can be read by all intermediate nodes along a given >> route? >> > Conversely, can one add annotations readable only by certain specific >> known >> > (to sender) intermediate nodes? >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Lightning-dev mailing list >> > Lightning-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org >> > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev >> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: