Requirements

The final protocol chosen must

• work in a trustless context
• work over libp2p
• work over HTTP
• have a spec
• have a reference implementation
• be implementable in javascript
• instrumented with the testground SDK
• open source license

not all of these requirements must be met from the start. focus on building something we can measure.

Takeaways From initial Requirements gathering:

Prioritize point-to-point

• Have a way for a client to use it in a single partie mode (no multicast stuff)
• don’t solve the Bittorrent use case - it’s conceptually appealing, but not the problem we solve in 99.9% of cases
• point to point is the likely use case here - any data replication is likely to be done cross region