Re: Any news on BT2?

Bill Cox wrote:
> Hi.
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> It's been since June that Bram said anything about BT2.  Is it
> progressing?
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> BT needs an upgrade, and the ideas Bram mentioned for BT2 sound
> promising.  It's no good loading down the trackers.  Merkle hash trees
> are needed badly, as is tracker load distribution and redundancy.
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> Are there any code or protocol ideas we can start hacking together and
> testing in the open-source community?  We've got no official extension,

I've got an experimental implementation of merkle trees in my client.

> but at least two private companies are already using some BT2 ideas in
> their proprietary protocols.
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> Thanks,
> Bill
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