Improve the glossary

[salmad3]

Context

• Many terms that aren't yet in the glossary should be.
• There is an opportunity writing style edits, including condensing the long explanations for certain content.

Done Criteria

• [ ] Add the following terms:

• Routing

• Stream

• Hash

• Key

• Packet

• Frame

• DNS

• Encryption

• Authentication

• Gossip

• Latency

• Firewall

• Routing table

• TCP

• UDP

• WebSockets

• SDP

• STUN

• TURN

• Certificate Authority (CA)

• RLPx

• DTLS

• Signaling server

• Multicodecs

• (feel free to add others)

• [ ] Condense definitions for terms and phrases that are too long

• [ ] Create a hierarchical organization for related terms / phrases. For instance:

• Addresses

  • IP Address
  • Multiaddresses

• Hash

  • Multihash

• NAT traversal

  • STUN
  • TURN

• Node

  • Boot node

    Why Important

The glossary is key tool for understanding the concepts in the libp2p documentation, and serves as a general reference point for fundamental terms and phrases, which should exhaustive and up-to-date.

[ElPaisano]

@DannyS03 I can take this issue