Agenda

• review proposed working group purpose
• gather use cases
• set next meeting time
• event link: lu.ma/8kk9i628

Move the Bytes WG

purpose:

• We want need to replace bitswap.
• We represent a sizable chunk of the IPFS community, are the group with both the capability & motivation to ship a better data transfer protocol
• It’s in the interest of the protocol for us to ship one **new data transfer protocol
  • Shipping a single protocol stands a higher chance of replacing bitswap faster
• To make this work for everyone, to enumerate the use cases this new protocol must serve
  • use cases must be quantified
  • in order for it to count as a “use case”, it must be a problem you currently have, or can demonstrate with metrics that you will have
• we should test multiple designs
  • let’s all agree to use the design that is the intersection of the most use cases served & the best performance
  • Let’s push for multiple designs to make our work mutually-informing
• our tests should include outside protocols that model the same scenarios
  • bitswap (duh)
  • graphsync
  • HTTP
  • Bittorrent
  • rsync
• This working group will switch to async communication once the first implementation(s) are deployed & considered stable

Notes

• What can we ship in 3 months
• Family of languages we need to target
• Testground plan for carpool, graphsync, http
  • continuous improvement / adding / testing other impls
• Baseline / Success criteria
  • minimum perf
    • Point to point vs one to one requests
  • minimum usecase