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IPFS DHT Specification is missing
This is a placeholder for missing specs.
Problem
- No specs for IPFS DHT exist.
- Kad DHT specs that live in https://github.com/libp2p/specs/tree/master/kad-dht and are currently focused on Peer routing only (scope limited to libp2p use of DHT).
- IPFS specifics such as how provider records and IPNS records are published / resolved was removed from the mentioned specs, but should be still in git history of that repo
TODO
- [ ] see if we can salvage any old content from https://github.com/libp2p/specs/tree/master/kad-dht
- [ ] decide if our spec is on top of libp2p one, or do we have our own, end-to-end specs
- [ ] WRITE THE SPECS and get sign-off from GO, JS and Rust impl.
If anyone has good content we should include, link/comment below.
Additional Resources
- libp2p spec (limited to peer records) https://github.com/libp2p/specs/tree/master/kad-dht
- IPNS uses DHT, but it is greatly undocumented (https://github.com/ipfs/specs/blob/main/ipns/IPNS.md#integration-with-ipfs)
- https://pl-strflt.notion.site/DHT-Overview-e4bc573eaf094efc8a0781de47262db6
- https://github.com/libp2p/docs/pull/293