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Updated Comments:BIP 0061 (markdown)

Luke Dashjr
2017-03-14 23:45:41 +00:00
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@@ -8,4 +8,6 @@ It is also incorrect to assume that older protocol versions will cease to exist.
If this precedent is allowed to hold the network is subject to trivial DOS attacks. The requirement to treat invalid messages as valid precludes a node from dropping the peer due to incorrect behavior. This statement should be struck (and offending implementations should be fixed so that they do not intentionally send invalid messages). If this precedent is allowed to hold the network is subject to trivial DOS attacks. The requirement to treat invalid messages as valid precludes a node from dropping the peer due to incorrect behavior. This statement should be struck (and offending implementations should be fixed so that they do not intentionally send invalid messages).
--Eric Voskuil, 2017-02-07 --Eric Voskuil, 2017-02-07
Clean and straightforward. Nodes should implement this. (Disagree with Voskuil's assessment, as nodes have always been expected to ignore unknown messages.) --Luke Dashjr, 2017-03-14