All the validators of a chain have to publish on the Kademlia DHT a signed record containing their PeerId and addresses at which they are reachable at a key corresponding to their validator key.
Note that IMO we shouldn't put the name "authority discovery" in the spec, instead we should just mention that validators have to publish a record in the DHT without giving a name to that mechanism.
heversonbr
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1 year ago
All the validators of a chain have to publish on the Kademlia DHT a signed record containing their PeerId and addresses at which they are reachable at a key corresponding to their validator key.
The precise format is somewhere here: https://github.com/paritytech/substrate/tree/master/client/authority-discovery
Note that IMO we shouldn't put the name "authority discovery" in the spec, instead we should just mention that validators have to publish a record in the DHT without giving a name to that mechanism.