5 | | Second, make announcement idempotent in the introducer -- i.e. make it so that if a node announces themselves when they are already in the introducer's set of announced nodes, that the introducer ignores the announcement. (This makes sense, anyway, because the introducer doesn't need to inform any subscribers about the re-announcement since the clients will already have heard the earlier announcement from the introducer, and the only time a node would announce itself redundantly would be if that node were buggy.) |
| 5 | Second, make announcement idempotent in the introducer -- i.e. make it so that if a node announces themselves when they are already in the introducer's set of announced nodes, that the introducer ignores the announcement. (This makes sense, anyway, because the introducer doesn't need to inform any subscribers about the re-announcement since the clients will already have heard the earlier announcement from the introducer, and the only time a node would announce itself redundantly would be if that node were buggy.) ''DONE'' |