Step-by-step: the road to Fleming, 4: Network restarts

pierrechevalier83 · April 4, 2019, 2:34pm

Is there anything one can read to better understand the “upper level” communication?

The disjoint groups (now known as disjoint sections) RFC is probably a good starting point.

maidsafe/rfcs/blob/master/text/0037-disjoint-groups/0037-disjoint-groups.md

# Disjoint Sections

- Status: active
- Type: feature
- Related components: kademlia_routing_table, routing, safe_vault
- Start Date: 20-07-2016
- Discussion: https://github.com/maidsafe/rfcs/issues/161
- Supersedes: https://github.com/maidsafe/rfcs/blob/master/text/0019-new-kademlia-routing-logic/0019-new-kademlia-routing-logic.md
- Superseded by:


## Summary

Introduce the notion of a "section" of the network, in addition to the existing notion of a group, and the corresponding routing table logic, such that the network's sections are disjoint and form a partition of the set of nodes. Each node will thus be a member of exactly one section. The section size, however, will not be fixed, as opposed to the group size.

Groups will continue to be usable, though, and might remain the appropriate notion for safe_vault's tasks.

(This RFC was originally called "Disjoint Groups", but it turns out to be useful to keep both the old and the new kind of "group" functionality in the code for different purposes. The new concept is therefore called a "section", and the `GROUP_SIZE` closest nodes to a given address continue to be called the "close group" of that address.)

## Motivation

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It may be a bit dense, but hopefully it can get you started.
For some discussions on this forum: RFC: Disjoint Groups - #21 by JBishop.

And if you have any question while checking these resources, feel free to ask

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