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Tooling for unparsable Multiaddr #88

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Sample use-case:

  • Roll out of new Protocol::X.
  • Old DHT nodes should forward Multiaddrs with Protocol::X of new nodes even though they can't parse the Multiaddr. Currently they don't.

Considerations:

  • Instead of providing e.g. an Unparsable type in multiaddr, each user that cares could also carry a Either<Multiaddr, Vec<u8>>.
  • One could add a Protocol::Unparsable(Vec<u8>) containing the remaining unparsable bytes. This might break existing implementations as they depend on Multiaddr either to succeed or fail, but not fail partially.

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