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[GossipSub 1.2] PING/PONG control messages #558

Open Nashatyrev opened 1 year ago

Nashatyrev commented 1 year ago

This PR introduces a new GossipSub version 1.2

Co-authored with @Menduist

New messages

The new PING/PONG control messages are added

Potential applications:

Emulate message receive acknowledgement for better staggered sending
Help gossip router to gather additional statistics about connection characteristics (e.g. latency and bandwidth) and optimize message sending (send staggering mostly)
Additionally that could potentially be used to keep TCP connection 'warm' (avoid TCP slow start restart) by sending quite frequent PING requests (with a period of 1-2 RRTs)

vyzo commented 1 year ago

Let's target this to #560