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The Waku Whitepaper #7

Open alrevuelta opened 1 year ago

alrevuelta commented 1 year ago

After some internal discussions, we thought it would be a good idea to write The Waku Whitepaper, explaining:

The idea would be to expand this paper, being more extensive and specific, reflecting what we aim waku to be. Note that this is not a spec or RFC. It should explain how the proposed problem would be solved but without deep technical implementation details. It should have an extension of around 15 pages, written with academic rigor and somewhat opinionated.

This paper would serve as a public commitment on what we want waku to be (like Ulysses tying himself to the ship). It will also help to maintain academic presence and would also serve to explain new hires, donors, grants or investors what we are building.

I would suggest the following structure:

(+ ... other things I'm missing)

Some whitepapers we can use for reference:

alrevuelta commented 1 year ago

@fryorcraken @jm-clius can I get some preliminary feedback on the idea?

arnetheduck commented 1 year ago

:+1:

jm-clius commented 1 year ago

Yes, agree on direction/motivation here and think the scope looks good.

fryorcraken commented 1 year ago

Yes looks good. Would add notion of adaptive node to the list of what needs to be covered.

chaitanyaprem commented 1 year ago

Scope is good, One point i feel we should definitely try to indicate/highlight is how the minimum node required to support the network is lightweight(which furthers decentralization). I guess it would get covered as part of adaptive node, but would be good to indicate this thought process as well.

A nice section to include would be what Waku is not trying to solve/out of scope of its domain. It would set a reader's scope and wouldn't leave for open assumptions.