Neil Davies

Outline of activity: * need a stronger reasoned argument for the effects of * initial choice of ledger peer set * the consequence of resampling from that set (either due...

This has become a separate issue - #3956 > Peter had an argument that everybody needs to connect to ledger peers. I think this relies on the assumption that to...

Need to consider: * configuration (where, how global) * handshake * how quickly will a rich topology emerge from a 'cold' start (bounding worst case) * when (in a node's...

We have concluded that we only need to request from `Established Peers` reducing network traffic and transient load.

Such nodes would: a) never be the first to supply a new header; b) never be first to be asked to get a block - so never first to supply...