Age Manning

Syncing from checkpoint sync doesn't store all blocks, just the minimum we need to serve. I'm going to close this in favour of block pruning in #4158

This has been officially completed with discv5, lighthouse and our mainnet bootnodes updated. Ipv6 should be supported on the network now.

Yeah. There is more complexity here than we anticipated. So its not a straight-forward fix. We're currently focusing on developing and testing protocol updates for the next hard-fork so this...

We have opted to use UTC by default as most events a relative in time and this helps debugging logs across multiple timezones.

Yes, this decision was assuming that there were no users that wanted local time. If users are interested in using local time we can re-open this issue and add the...

We've been working on a big update to gossipsub, that we're calling episub. Its still under testing at the moment, but is entirely built. It wouldn't be hard to include...

Yep. We have a rust and go version. We are doing some interop testing and attempting some large simulations to check some of the desired behaviours. Once it looks like...

I was thinking episub may take longer than expected as we need to justify the expected performance improvements. This could now be a standalone PR put against the `master` branch...

@mxinden @thomaseizinger I've been discussin with @dapplion about the best way to get the signed peer records into gossipsub. The main source comes from the rendezvous protocol. It keeps a...

Yep. I guess we would also need to handle expired records also. Gossipsub would also then have to manage the TTL of records and I imagine other behaviours would also....