Hey everyone, I was working on some custom protocol extensions for Bitcoin that I wanted to experiment with and I noticed that in order to enable nodes to announce these services the only mechanism the protocol currently provides is to use one of the 64 bits of the services field. This is obviously a resource that will run out quickly if we all just help ourselves, so I set out to come up with a standardized way to announce custom protocol extensions, without using up NODE_* flags.
Please kindly review my solution: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/User:Justmoon/BIP_Draft:_Custom_Services Thanks to Amir Taaki, Mike Hearn and Pieter Wuille who provided invaluable feedback while writing the draft. Note: Earlier drafts of this BIP contained a description of a mechanism for peer exchange for these custom services. However, since that part of the BIP was (1) just a recommendation and (2) rather complex, Amir and I agreed to split it off into a separate BIP [1] that will be refined some more and submitted later. Cheers, Stefan [1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/User:Justmoon/BIP_Draft:_Custom_Service_Discovery ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
