Document cascading lookup over legacy bitswap broadcast

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:book: Technical Specification of IPNI Protocols

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Closed masih closed 1 year ago

masih commented 1 year ago

Update the specification with extension to legacy cascade over BitSwap along with options to discover peering addrs.

masih commented 1 year ago

Cc @aschmahmann @lidel @guseggert

willscott commented 1 year ago

I think the "bitswap-peering" is going to be a bit awkward as a cascade because it's unclear which peers are being peered with by a given provider.
I wonder if it would make sense to call it something like "infura-bitswap-peering" or "2023-non-dht-bitswap-peering" or something to express the caveat
I agree with @masih that it seems reasonable at this point to hope it doesn't last for particularly long, and is not a mechanism i'd expect to encourage other partners to run