I think it's pretty reasonable, although people will want to use node flags to get into the addr broadcasts anyway.
That said, I suspect (based on previous discussions) that there would be quite some pushback against putting extra functionality into the core Bitcoin network. Most likely people will re-use the code with different peer discovery seeds and bootstrap similar but unrelated P2P networks for doing new applications. For instance, what if we want to do the language translation app I've talked about a few times before? You need a way to floodfill broadcast invalid transactions to interested parties. The pubsub mechanism in the Bitcoin protocol was an interesting way to do that, but I think it got removed. To broadcast to interested nodes now, you'd have to find them via addr broadcasts and then connect directly. And if you're going to do that, you may as well just form an entirely independent network. More elaboration of the use cases might therefore be useful. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
