Lightning Specification Meeting 2020/03/02

[cdecker]

The meeting will take place on Monday 2020/03/02 on IRC #lightning-dev. It is open to the public.

Pull Request Review

• Reply channel range simplification Reply channel range simplification #737
  • Adds details to the spec which were interpreted differently by the implementations.
• BOLT11 additional and negative tests BOLT11 additional and negative tests #736
• TLV message extensions Bolt 1: Specify that extensions to existing messages must use TLV #754
• Stuck channels: Avoid stuck channels after fee increase with additional reserve #740 and Avoid stuck channels after fee increase by dipping into reserve #750
• Wumbo advisory for scaling confirmations: Add advisory section for wumbo channels confirmations #746
• Quick follow-up on Gitbook A home for BOLT #738

Long Term Updates

• Current status of the trampoline routing proposal (@t-bast)
• Protocol testing framework (@rustyrussell). See the tools/ and tests/events directories in lightning-rfc-protocol-test for details.
• Rendez-vous (@cdecker and @t-bast)
• How can we improve the gossip (gossip_queries_ex)? (@sstone )

Backlog

The following are topics that we should discuss at some point, so if we have time to discuss them great, otherwise they slip to the next meeting.

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Post-Meeting notes:

Action items

• Merge Add bolt11 test vector with amount in p units #699 and BOLT11 additional and negative tests #736 once ack-ed on Github
• All implementations to check that their current behavior would be ok with merging Reply channel range simplification #737 and report on the PR
• Finalize work on Avoid stuck channels after fee increase with additional reserve #740 : investigate signalling and clarify PR (@t-bast)
• Study cdecker's rendezvous proposal before next meeting
• Summarize Hornet's goodies and how they related to recent feature discussion (@cfromknecht)

The full logs can be found here