This RFC outlines the process for moving from formatting peer IDs as base58 multihashes to formatting them as CIDs with a special libp2p-key multicodec (0x72).
This RFC does not change the in-memory and/or network representation of peer IDs, just the textual format.
This process has two stages that must be completed in order:
RFC: https://github.com/libp2p/specs/pull/209
This RFC outlines the process for moving from formatting peer IDs as base58 multihashes to formatting them as CIDs with a special libp2p-key multicodec (0x72).
This RFC does not change the in-memory and/or network representation of peer IDs, just the textual format.
This process has two stages that must be completed in order:
Tracking status of all libp2p implementations:
multicodec
v0.5.2