Waku Specifications

Waku builds a family of privacy-preserving, censorship-resistant communication protocols for web3 applications. This repository contains specifications for the Waku suite of protocols.

List of Specifications:

• Standards
  • Core: Standards and protocols for the core Waku p2p communications offering.
  • Application: Standards and protocols that describe various applications or encryption use cases built on top of a Waku network.
• Informational: Waku design issues, general guidelines or background information that does not constitute a new feature.

Core standards

Waku Specifications	Description
10/WAKU2	Waku Overview
11/WAKU2-RELAY	Waku Relay
12/WAKU2-FILTER	Waku Filter
13/WAKU2-STORE	Waku Store
14/WAKU2-MESSAGE	Waku Message
17/WAKU2-RLN-RELAY	Waku RLN Relay
19/WAKU2-LIGHTPUSH	Waku Lightpush
33/WAKU2-DISCV5	Waku Discovery v5 Ambient Peer Discovery
36/WAKU2-BINDINGS-API	Waku C Bindings API
WAKU2-PEER-EXCHANGE	Waku Peer Exchange
WAKU2-ENR	Waku Usage of ENR
WAKU2-INCENTIVIZATION	Waku Incentivization
66/WAKU2-METADATA	Waku Metadata
64/WAKU2-NETWORK	Waku Network
RELAY-SHARDING	Waku Relay Sharding
WAKU2-STORE	Waku Store Query

Application standards

Waku Specifications	Description
20/TOY-ETH-PM	Toy Ethereum Private Message
21/WAKU2-FAULT-TOLERANT-STORE	Waku Fault-Tolerant Store
22/TOY-CHAT	Waku Toy Chat
26/WAKU2-PAYLOAD	Waku Message Payload Encryption
53/WAKU2-X3DH	X3DH Usage for Waku Payload Encryption
54/WAKU2-X3DH-SESSIONS	Session Management for Waku X3DH
DANDELION	Waku Dandelion
WAKU2-DEVICE-PAIRING	Device Pairing and Secure Transfers with Noise
WAKU2-NOISE	Noise Protocols for Waku Payload Encryption
TOR-PUSH	Waku Tor Push
RLN-KEYSTORE	Waku RLN Keystore JSON schema
TRANSPORT-RELIABILITY	Waku Transport Reliability
REQ-RES-RELIABILITY	Reliability for request-response protocols

Informational

Waku Specifications	Description
23/WAKU2-TOPICS	Waku Topic Usage Recommendations
27/WAKU2-PEERS	Waku Peer Management Recommendations
29/WAKU2-CONFIG	Waku Parameter Configuration Recommendations
30/ADAPTIVE-NODES	Adaptive Nodes
ADVERSARIAL-MODELS	Waku Adversarial Models and Attack-based Threat List
RELAY-STATIC-SHARD-ALLOC	Waku Relay Static Shard Allocation
MVDS-STATUS	MVDS Usage in Status App

Resources

Relevant Waku resources related to the specifications located in this repository:

• Waku.org
• nwaku: Waku Node

Contributions

Contributions are welcome from any party. Contributors can create specifications relating to the Waku domain and create a pull request to begin discussion.

Please adhere to the following contribution guidelines:

• use the recommended template for new proposed specifications
• use keywords as per the language recommendations in the template and Vac COSS
• use semantic breaks
• links to Waku, Vac or other IFT-related specifications must be to the corresponding Github repository and not to a webpage. For example, Waku specs reside in waku-org/specs and Vac RFCs in vacp2p/rfc-index.
• we no longer use "v2" in the name of new specifications (and existing spec names inconsistent with this rule will eventually be revised). For example, do not call your specification "Waku v2 New Protocol" but simply "Waku New Protocol"
• the title of new specifications must be prefixed with WAKU2- to differentiate it from other projects' specs and previous RFC generations. For example, "Waku New Protocol" could be titled WAKU2-NEW-PROTOCOL.

New specifications are considered a proof of concept. Once a rough consensus is reached towards stabilization, the specification may be considered to receive the draft status and further discussion will continue on the Vac RFC-Index repository.

NOTE: Specifications located in this repository should be considered not production ready. Discussion should be conducted with the intention of maturing each specification.

Head over to the Vac RFC-Index repository where other Waku specifications live.