Achieving Connectivity Magic · Issue #1459 · ipfs/js-ipfs (original) (raw)

I ran an impromptu and presidential design session with @alanshaw, @olizilla and @achingbrain to walk through some of the design decisions on libp2p and we ended up discussing the Connectivity Magic Objective and what exactly I mean by "creativity".

The tl;dr; there are multiple ways to find file, but all of them have tradeoffs.

Here is the sketch we ended up doing:

Here is an annotated version:

I can make a quick video explaining this, but perhaps it would be more valuable to have @alanshaw, @olizilla and @achingbrain explain this to @hugomrdias (who owns the KR to get files from the gateways) through a Zoom Recorded Call or Text, so that we check that the memes have indeed been transferred :)

The focus should be around on why the shortcoming exists and the 3 solutions on the solution spectrum (from hacky to ideal but not necessarily memory efficient).