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slug: 30
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title: 30/ADAPTIVE-NODES
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name: Adaptive nodes
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status: draft
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editor: Oskar Thorén <oskar@status.im>
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contributors:
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---
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This is an informational spec that show cases the concept of adaptive nodes.
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# Node types - a continuum
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We can look at node types as a continuum, from more restricted to less restricted, fewer resources to more resources.
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## Possible limitations
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- Connectivity: Not publicly connectable vs static IP and DNS
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- Connectivity: Mostly offline to mostly online to always online
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- Resources: Storage, CPU, Memory, Bandwidth
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## Accessibility and motivation
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Some examples:
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- Opening browser window: costs nothing, but contribute nothing
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- Desktop: download, leave in background, contribute somewhat
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- Cluster: expensive, upkeep, but can contribute a lot
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These are also illustrative, so a node in a browser in certain environment might contribute similarly to Desktop.
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## Adaptive nodes
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We call these nodes *adaptive nodes* to highlights different modes of contributing, such as:
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- Only leeching from the network
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- Relaying messages for one or more topics
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- Providing services for lighter nodes such as lightpush and filter
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- Storing historical messages to various degrees
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- Ensuring relay network can't be spammed with RLN
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## Planned incentives
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Incentives to run a node is currently planned around:
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- SWAP for accounting and settlement of services provided
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- RLN RELAY for spam protection
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- Other incentivization schemes are likely to follow and is an area of active research
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# Node protocol selection
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Each node can choose which protocols to support, depending on its resources and goals.
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In the case of protocols like 11/WAKU2-RELAY etc (12, 13, 19, 21) these correspond to Libp2p protocols.
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However, other protocols like 16/WAKU2-RPC (local HTTP JSON-RPC), 25/LIBP2P-DNS-DISCOVERY, Discovery v5 (DevP2P) or interfacing with distributed storage, are running on different network stacks.
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This is in addition to protocols that specify payloads, such as 14/WAKU2-MESSAGE, 26/WAKU2-PAYLOAD, or application specific ones. As well as specs that act more as recommendations, such as 23/WAKU2-TOPICS or 27/WAKU2-PEERS.
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# Waku network visualization
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We can better visualize the network with some illustrative examples.
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## Topology and topics
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The first one shows an example topology with different PubSub topics for the relay protocol.
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## Legend
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The dotted box shows what content topics (application-specific) a node is interested in.
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A node that is purely providing a service to the network might not care.
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In this example, we see support for toy chat, a topic in Waku v1 (Status chat), WalletConnect, and SuperRare community.
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## Auxiliary network
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This is a separate component with its own topology.
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Behavior and interaction with other protocols specified in Vac RFCs, e.g. 25/LIBP2P-DNS-DISCOVERY, 15/WAKU-BRIDGE, etc.
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## Node Cross Section
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This one shows a cross-section of nodes in different dimensions and shows how the connections look different for different protocols.
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# Copyright
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Copyright and related rights waived via [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).
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