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Document "Happy Eyeballs"

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Description

The first portion of Smart Dialing is introducing an approach like Happy Eyeballs. With this, a libp2p node prioritizes a peer's multiaddr list based on transports and selects the best multiaddr to dial.

Done Criteria

  • Briefly describe Happy Eyeballs (how it influences and differs from go-libp2p's approach)
  • Describe previous libp2p multiaddr selection logic and why it is not scalable (as more multiaddrs are added) and efficient (why it doesn't pick the best multiaddr)
  • Describe how using this approach results in a better performance and better connection likelihood
  • Decide whether to: document in connection establishment or as a separate article
  • Mention this is only in go-libp2p for now

Why Important

We need to document and highlight the performance optimizations libp2p has specified and implemented.

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