vyzo

This is nice for testing. We should also have a flag that specifies the listen addresses, so that we can only listen on QUIC for example but still be able...

I am not too excited about that.

You can use identify directly on a peer.

It's trivial, you just open a stream and read the identify response. Having said that, we probably want to expose the Peerstore where such information can be obtained. I don't...

Another primary motivation is the creation of bindings for other languages without having to implement the whole libp2p stack.

I would like to point out that I already have Gerbil bindings for the prototype daemon: https://github.com/vyzo/gerbil-libp2p I am going to be maintaining and evolving these bindings as my means...

We can expect rapid evolution, but the stream protocol is pretty solid I think. At any rate, the evolution will be driven by user feature demand as much as our...

Easiest path forward is 2, by implementing a java client that talks to the libp2p daemon.

There are multiaddrs in several other places (eg: the PeerInfo objects returned by various operations), so it felt appropriate to use the binary format.

Also multiaddr is pretty well supported by the various languages and straightforward to implement for languages that don't have it yet (I had to implement for Gerbil, and it wasn't...