Re: [Lightning-dev] SURBs as a Solution for Protocol-Level Payment ACKs

2019-02-18 Thread Rusty Russell
Olaoluwa Osuntokun writes: > Hi y'all, > > Recently we've started to do more design work related to the Sphinx packet > (EOB format, rendezvous protocol). This prompted me to re-visit the original > Sphinx paper to refresh my memory w.r.t some of the finer details of the > protocol. While I was r

Re: [Lightning-dev] SURBs as a Solution for Protocol-Level Payment ACKs

2019-02-11 Thread Kulpreet Singh
Hi Laolu, Using the SURB approach to ACK payments definitely seems like a sensible approach for all the reasons you listed. I think this might be a good opportunity to think of an implicit ACK mechanism too. It might not be useful in the immediate future, but could reduce some traffic in the long

[Lightning-dev] SURBs as a Solution for Protocol-Level Payment ACKs

2019-02-07 Thread Olaoluwa Osuntokun
Hi y'all, Recently we've started to do more design work related to the Sphinx packet (EOB format, rendezvous protocol). This prompted me to re-visit the original Sphinx paper to refresh my memory w.r.t some of the finer details of the protocol. While I was re-reading the paper, I realized that we