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Model "address scopes" in signed peer records

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Description

There is such thing as “address scopes” for discovery mechanisms, which we have not modelled yet, e.g. a public discovery mechanism should only advertise public addresses, a multi-layer DHT with a private layer or mDNS should advertise private addresses.

When it comes to signed peer records, these two address sets should be contained in records with different _asserted scope_, and these records are _additive_ to one another, rather than exclusive.

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No files or tests are named. Start by locating the signed peer record and discovery address-handling code, then determine how asserted scopes should be represented and combined; done means public and private address sets can be advertised in separate additive records with distinct scopes.

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Tech stack
go
Domain
networking
Issue type
Feature
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5/5
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Over a week
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Needs clarification
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