On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Phil Marlowe wrote:

> I've said it before, and I'll say it again: there should be a router 
> function between 0.3 and 0.4, so users of the previous protocol aren't 
> orphaned.  Make it optional, so we're not obnoxious to 0.4 users.  But if 
> any 0.4 user, out of the goodness of his heart, wants to route between 0.3 
> and 0.4, he should be able to set a flag, that makes his node listen on two 
> ports, one for each protocol, and route messages between the two.
<disclaimer>
I didn't find the 0.3 FNP specs, so I'm not sure whether this 
is possible.
</disclaimer>

If the crypto and message layers haven't changed since 0.3, a node could 
just ask the connecting node to identify itself via a noderef and then use 
whatever version of FNP the other node understands.

This would eliminate the need for separate ports for 0.3 and 0.4, and 
would make future changes to FNP less damaging to the network.

-- 
Mika Hirvonen <hirvox at welho.com>
  http://nightwatch.mine.nu/


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