On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:00:23AM +0200, Mike Hearn wrote: > The original Bloom filtering spec did not make this feature optional for > the same reason gzip isn't an optional part of the PNG specification. I see > no reason to revisit that. It's definitely not the case that making every > possible feature optional is smart design, often it's the opposite.
Bloom filtering isn't lossless so to speak. A better analogy would be making re-sharing an optinal part of the BitTorrent specification, and then expecting that the majority of users would never upload data to peers that needed it. -- 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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