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Updated Comments:BIP 0152 (markdown)

Gregory Maxwell 2017-03-14 23:44:11 +00:00
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implies that the Bitcoin P2P protocol generally requires that messages are handled and responded to in the order received. This is not reasonable to assume or require, nor is it consistent with behavior of existing nodes. This is especially problematic as it pertains to unrelated protocols, such as between ping-pong and compact blocks. The only ordering assumption is that a response can only follow its request, for message types that are response-only.
--Eric Voskuil, 2017-01-21
--Eric Voskuil, 2017-01-21
The protocol has strong requirements for ordering already, and has always had such a requirement. Moreover, no compact block messages will be sent until the a sendcmpact message has been processed; so there would not be ambiguity except in odd circumstances (described in the BIP). This proposal is v-ery well constructed, was extensively reviewed, and deployed and successfully used on an overwhelming supermajority of nodes on the network.
--Greg Maxwell, 2017-03-14