Hello, When you navigate to https://github.com/lightningnetwork/ you find - the Lightning Network white paper - the Lightning Network specifications - and ... the source code for lnd!
This has been an anomaly for years, which has created some confusion between Lightning the open-source protocol and Lightning Labs, one of the companies specifying and implementing this protocol, but we didn't do anything about it. I believe that was a mistake: a few days ago, Arcane Research published a fairly detailed report on the state of the Lightning Network: https://twitter.com/ArcaneResearch/status/1445442967582302213. They obviously did some real work there, and seem to imply that their report was vetted by Open Node and Lightning Labs. Yet in the first version that they published you’ll find this: "Lightning Labs, founded in 2016, has developed the reference client for the Lightning Network called Lightning Network Daemon (LND).... They also maintain the network standards documents (BOLTs) repository." They changed it because we told them that it was wrong, but the fact that in 2021 people who took time do do proper research, interviews, ... can still misunderstand that badly how the Lightning developers community works means that we ourselves badly underestimated how confusing mixing the open-source specs for Lightning and the source code for one of its implementations can be. To be clear, I'm not blaming Arcane Research that much for thinking that an implementation of an open-source protocol that is hosted with the white paper and specs for that protocol is a "reference" implementation, and thinking that since Lightning Labs maintains lnd then they probably maintain the other stuff too. The problem is how that information is published. So I'm proposing that lnd's source code be removed from https://github.com/lightningnetwork/ (and moved to https://github.com/lightninglabs for example, with the rest of their Lightning tools, but it's up to Lightning Labs). Thanks, Fabrice _______________________________________________ Lightning-dev mailing list Lightning-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev
