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@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ Applications partition the payload into multiple transport messages and reconstr
even when segments arrive out of order or up to a **predefined percentage** of segments are lost.
The protocol optionally uses **Reed–Solomon** erasure coding for fault tolerance.
All messages are wrapped in a `SegmentMessageProto`, including those that fit in a single segment.
Implementations **MAY** opt into a [backwards-compatible mode](#backwards-compatibility) that exempts small payloads from wrapping.
## Motivation
@ -99,7 +98,7 @@ To transmit a payload, the sender:
- Send each segment as an individual transport message according to the underlying transport protocol,
preserving application-level metadata (e.g., content topic).
This yields a deterministic wire format: every transmitted payload is a `SegmentMessageProto`. Implementations introducing segmentation into a deployment with peers that predate this specification **MAY** instead operate in [backwards-compatible mode](#backwards-compatibility).
This yields a deterministic wire format: every transmitted payload is a `SegmentMessageProto`.
### Receiving
@ -119,25 +118,6 @@ Upon receiving a segmented message, the receiver:
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## Backwards Compatibility
Implementations **MAY** support a **backwards-compatible mode**, intended for deployments where this specification is being introduced incrementally and some peers do not yet implement segmentation.
The mode is controlled by the `backwardsCompatible` configuration option, which defaults to `false`.
When `backwardsCompatible = true`, the [Sending](#sending) procedure is amended as follows:
- Payloads with size **≤ `segmentSize`** **SHALL** be transmitted unmodified, i.e., not wrapped in `SegmentMessageProto`.
- Payloads exceeding `segmentSize` are wrapped and sent unchanged from [Sending](#sending).
A receiver that interoperates with senders operating in this mode **MUST** accept both wrapped and unwrapped payloads on the same channel.
A payload that does not parse as a valid `SegmentMessageProto` is treated as an unsegmented original payload and delivered directly to the application.
**Trade-off.**
This mode preserves on-the-wire compatibility with peers that cannot decode `SegmentMessageProto`, at the cost of the deterministic wire format described in [Sending](#sending).
Once all peers in a deployment implement this specification, `backwardsCompatible` **SHOULD** be set to `false`.
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## Implementation Suggestions
### Reed–Solomon