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From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete•org>
To: Sergey Matveev <stargrave@stargrave•org>
Cc: nncp-devel@lists.cypherpunks.ru
Subject: Re: Confirmation of Received Packets
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 16:00:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilt4hqmo.fsf@complete.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yhdnndp2aoSHPFm+@stargrave.org>

On Thu, Feb 24 2022, Sergey Matveev wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> Yesterday I started to implement sending of new type of ACK-packets.
> They just contain packet's hash, confirming the receipt. I assume that
> you would optionally turn their sending on. When tossed, receiver will
> just delete probably existing outbound packets mentioned in those ACKs.
> I hope that will finish that on holidays. Really would be useful, seems
> very easy to implement and currently I do not see drawbacks or complications.

Fantastic!  That sounds perfect, and I was hoping it would be easy like
that indeed.  I suspect it wouldn't require any breaking changes (would
be compatible with older versions unless the new ACK options are turned
on)?

Thanks,

John

  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-24 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-23 13:17 Confirmation of Received Packets John Goerzen
2022-02-24 11:10 ` Sergey Matveev
2022-02-24 22:00   ` John Goerzen [this message]
2022-02-24 22:03     ` Sergey Matveev
2022-02-25 22:46       ` Jonathan Lane