Arvid Norberg

right, I forgot to mention that in order to make multi-file torrents backwards compatible, the total size field has to be added as well. I recall considering obfuscating the size...

the tracker exchange extension suffers from privacy and security issues. For example, it can be used to make peers reveal information about themselves, by publishing it to your tracker. It...

my understanding (although, not as a native english speaker) is that the term "Black art" is a metaphor in BEP 36. Avoiding metaphors in general is probably a good idea...

some beps were rejected or withdrawn (and never implemented), so they are not mentioned in the index.

@the8472 I seem to recall the one-announce-per-interface being documented somewhere, but I couldn't find it (I didn't look very hard I suppose). That was a PR against BEP7 from you...

> > As far as I can tell, all implementations have (perhaps implicitly) agreed not to implement BEP 7, but instead always announce once per source interface. > Is that...

> The biggest "player" on Windows is utorrent and I haven't used it in a while but I would be extremely surprised if it didn't implement BEP 7. utorrent removed...

> It actually is documented in BEP 3 Oh, I had forgotten about that apparently. My recollection is that it was a bit frowned upon from very early on.

yes, I realized BEP 7 was more than just the announce parameters. It is correct that I'm only concerned about the `&ipv6=` and `&ipv4=` paramteters. I proposed a change here:...

There's another issue related to the `&key=` parameter raised recently ([here](https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/4236)). The original use of the `&key=` parameter is for a tracker to be able to tell if a peer...