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Touching on multiformats now - self describing values. Leads to protocol agility, interop, avoid lock in

"My protocol will never change" - "Yes. Yes they will change. Your system will break"

"It would be cool if we could have agility in a system. Upgrade from sha2 to sha3 when problems are found"

Touching on one of the multiformats now: multihash. Others are same in spirit (boo, I wanted to hear about multistream :p)

Multihash: prefix the digest with a varint what the format is and a varint that specifies the hash length - that's jus' a 4 byte prefix

"Why use codes and not strings" - problems with encoding conflicts - can't make assumption so it all should be binary - makes a lot of sense

Talking about multiaddr now. "How do you encode an address so it's clear which protocol you're using"

Lol, "/ip6/::1/tcp/80/http" http localhost over tcp on port 80 - this is silly simple. "onion/382upl5pq787c5m/80/http" http port 80 over Tor