multiformats / multiformats/multiaddr
Protocol for blockchain addressing
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Description
This project aims to identify things "in a network", and for the most part focuses on the TCP/IP networking stack, but extends into the IPFS network and Onion/Tor network too.
But I don't see a means to indicate content to be looked up on a blockchain? IPFS content has a lot of usage with blockchain-based projects, and if there were reflexive ways for referring back to blockchain-based data, I think that would be very helpful.
Similar to how the main README gives examples of /http/example.com/index.html and /tls/sni/example.com/http/example.com/index.html for accessing web content (not just connecting to the web server that controls the content), I believe the following for blockchain-related content would fit that pattern:
/web3/<CHAINID>/<ADDRESS>/<FUNCTION>.<RETURN_TYPE>
/web3/<CHAINID>/ens/<ENS_NAME>/<FUNCTION>.<RETURN_TYPE>
This proposal puts the chain ID first, which makes this different than ERC4804 in the ordering of the address parts, but the other logic of turning functions into path parts from ERC4804 could apply here too.
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Research direction
Start with the main README's address examples and compare the proposed /web3 paths with ERC4804. This issue needs a protocol design decision before implementation can begin; done would be an agreed addressing specification, including chain, address or ENS, function, and return-type handling.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- blockchain
- Domain
- blockchain, networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100