Re: Standards (was Back to Merkle Hash Trees...)

Justin Cormack wrote:
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>>Justin Cormack wrote:
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>>>>>>Is there some URL somewhere that describes the way Merkle hash
>>>>>>trees are supposed to be used in bt2? It seems that a lot of
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>>>>>No (AFAIK), but I've got an experimental implementation described at 
>>>>>http://62.216.18.38/bt_merkle/
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>>>>Olaf,
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>>>>This spec is excellent.  It's an outstanding document.  Also, it sounds
>>>>like you've already tested it, so it shouldn't have too many surprises
>>>>for implementers.
>>>>
>>>>While there are minor points that I would have liked to fine-tune, I
>>>>think having a working, well done spec like this is more important.  If
>>>>I had a vote, I'd vote that we adopt this spec as-is.
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>>>Ugh, no certainly not. Its a quick hack to try out some ideas, as a "spec"
>>>it is neither specific enough, nor well thought out.
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>>Any specific comments?
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> While you have a piece size on the torrent file, you have basically hard
> coded 32k in in the protocol. Then you have limited the filesize by only using

That's the chunk size, not the piece size.

> 32 bits for the piece. I thought everyone had pretty much agreed that 1k/4k

2^47 bytes doesn't look like a 'big' limitation.

> was a good size once we go Merkle?

I can't remember any discussion about that.

> The description of chunk_have is very unclear and I dont understand it.

It's like have, but for a chunk instead of for a piece.

> Requiring clients to be able to read a gzipped torrent is really not necessary
> just recommend/mandate that they support gzipped http.
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> your xbt url doesnt support a multifile torrent.

Why not?
It's the info_hash that's included, not the root hash of a single file.
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