This document proposes a new P2P message to gossip longer node addresses over the P2P network.
This is required to support new-generation Onion addresses, I2P, and potentially other networks
This is required to support new-generation Onion addresses, I2P, CJDNS and potentially other networks
that have longer endpoint addresses than fit in the 128 bits of the current <code>addr</code> message.
@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ various advantages compared to the old hidden services, among which better encry
<ref>[https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/rend-spec-v3.txt Tor Rendezvous Specification - Version 3]</ref>.
These services have 256 bit addresses and thus do not fit in the existing <code>addr</code> message, which encapsulates onion addresses in OnionCat IPv6 addresses.
Other transport-layer protocols such as I2P have always used longer
Other transport-layer protocols such as I2P and CJDNS have always used longer
addresses. This change would make it possible to gossip such addresses over the
P2P network, so that other peers can connect to them.
