Waku demo article: improvements and extensions

[staheri14]

Based on the comments received from DINPS22 on the Waku demo paper, the following actionable items are extracted. Some of them are to be addressed in the paper presented at the conference and some are to be pursued as future work.

Presentation of the Waku demo paper (at DINPS 22)

In addition to what is already included in the paper, the following items are requested by the reviewers to be discussed at the conference. While we might not have a concrete answer for all of them, it is good to prepare some initial answers or to mention our future work regarding them.

• [ ] Comparison of waku with vanilla IPFS/libp2p:
  • How does Waku routing, discovery, naming, gossiping, etc compare to vanilla IPFS/libp2p?
  • Can Waku nodes communicate/interact with libp2p nodes at any capacity?
• [ ] What is the performance of large networks of Waku nodes? Is it possible to test and show that using e.g. Testground?
• [ ] To supply a list of projects that rely on Waku: Are there any projects using Waku already? if so, why not show that off?
• [ ] To shed light on our definition of anonymity and privacy and discuss what we can achieve and what we cannot under different network states and different types of interactions.
• [ ] To clarify the user anonymity and privacy preservation in the context of waku i.e., wrt to spam protection and routing. Related comment follows:

  Another interesting question is how does Waku communicate privacy to the user/developer? It is very hard to guarantee total privacy and anonymity in P2P systems (or any others), so what does "privacy-preserving" and "anonymity" really mean in the context of Waku?

Future research work

The following future extensions are extracted from the DINPS reviewers' comments. Each can be a separate article to be submitted to a conference.

• Study of anonymity and privacy in Waku under varying adversarial models e.g., malicious participants
• The comparison of anonymity and performance of Waku with its counterparts e.g., Tor

[staheri14]

cc: @oskarth

[staheri14]

@D4nte Wondering whether you may have a list of projects/products that utilize Waku?