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Ethereum peer-to-peer networking specifications
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Clarify reasons behind restricting discovery to UDP #89

Closed dryajov closed 5 years ago

dryajov commented 5 years ago

Discovery v5 (and v4) is restricted to UDP only, could the reasons behind that decision be clearly stated.

This is a limiting factor in the context of browser runtimes (#87 and as brought up in #71).

FrankSzendzielarz commented 5 years ago

Thoughts from me on this so far https://github.com/ethereum/devp2p/issues/87#issuecomment-486161337

fjl commented 5 years ago

There is now a section in the rationale addressing this issue.