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I will make explicit a specific question I earlier implied: Are the Lightning engineers availing themselves of the fine research literature on network routing protocols and routing algorithms? If that could be answered off-hand by anybody whos been following Lightning development much more closely than I have, Id be much obliged.
Thanks.
When following older threads, there is lot of discussion on onion routing. But here in the forum I havent seen engineers discussing the research literature.
There has been a short discussion, but it did not get the desired attention it deserves...
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2573055.msg26369895;topicseen#msg26369895The routing itself is described here:
https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lightning-rfc/blob/master/04-onion-routing.mdAnd I read, Acinq/Eclair is using the flare routing engine. Havent found the spec yet. If someone has?