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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon multiformats

Add LBRY protocol

Open ben221199 opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Summary

This pull request adds a multiaddr for the LBRY network protocol, as described at https://lbry.tech/spec.

Before Merge

  • [ ] Allow at least 24 hours for community input
  • [ ] If this is a new protocol, has the change been applied to https://github.com/multiformats/multicodec as well? If so, please link the multicodec PR. https://github.com/multiformats/multicodec/pull/332

ben221199 avatar Jul 29 '23 20:07 ben221199

multiaddrs are for addressing machines and processes (i.e., endpoints you talk to) not for naming content. You probably just want a multicodec in the "namespace" category.

E.g., /ip4/1.2.3.4/udp/1234/quic means: speak the QUIC protocol over udp port 1234 to a machine at the IP 1.2.3.4.

Stebalien avatar Jul 30 '23 15:07 Stebalien

I added a reaction on https://github.com/multiformats/multicodec/pull/332.

ben221199 avatar Jul 30 '23 17:07 ben221199