On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 03:28:41PM -0400, Suhas Daftuar via bitcoin-dev wrote: > In thinking about the mechanism used there, I thought it would be helpful to > codify in a BIP the idea that Bitcoin network clients should ignore unknown > messages received before a VERACK. A draft of my proposal is available here > [2].
Rather than allowing arbitrary messages, maybe it would make sense to have a specific feature negotiation message, eg: VERSION ... FEATURE wtxidrelay FEATURE packagerelay VERACK with the behaviour being that it's valid only between VERSION and VERACK, and it takes a length-prefixed-string giving the feature name, optional additional data, and if the feature name isn't recognised the message is ignored. If we were to support a "polite disconnect" feature like Jeremy suggested, it might be easier to do that for a generic FEATURE message, than reimplement it for the message proposed by each new feature. Cheers, aj _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
