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[Protocol Design] Protocol Negotiation 2.0

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[Protocol Design] Protocol Negotiation 2.0

Name: @Stebalien

Length (choose one): 30m: 5 minute presentation, 25 minute discussion

Title (~1-7 words): Protocol Negotiation 2.0

Abstract (1 sentence up to a couple paragraphs, as you prefer):

Multistream select is currently inefficient both in terms of round trips and bandwidth, handles things like TCP's simultaneous connect poorly, and isn't usable for packet connections. Incidentally, the bandwidth inefficiency discourages long protocol names like /ipfs/QmId/path/to/my/protocol/RFC. Supporting names like this is a goal of the protocol.

I plan on presenting a new protocol negotiation protocol and hope to present an upgrade path (but that'll probably take some discussion).

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