Goals
- Common understanding of Mercury and its requirements. Every one of us should be able to answer "what about... " questions with respect to Mercury if cornered.
- Identify major gaps in Documentation and make sure someone is assigned to resolve it.
- Do some coding together in Rholang. Write contracts.
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Day 1:Location 1 -Blockchain, Consensus and Networking (Chris, Griff, Mike, Vlad, Timm, Alex)
- Support for transactions taking place between contracts in different namespaces
- How is the ledger maintained? reference: Blockmumble
- What are the canonical set of blocks that a validator has to download?
- CASPER - When do expect to have working code?
- What is the data structure.
- What are the networking requirements for the protocol?
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Day 2 Location 1: Rholang Lab (Greg, Timm, Alex, Ian, Navneet, Medha)
- TBD
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- Addressing shell games that amount to finding consensus assuming you have already got consensus...
- Betting requires fungibility between forks. How do we solve this in POS Consensus - what is the asset external to the system to create consensus?
- If we define consensus inductively, there is a time window over which a network split absolutely cannot happen. There is no value for this time window that makes network splits not happen.
- What happens when a validator leaves for several months and then returns - how is trust re-established without opening the network to attack?
- How do we address the problem with the first induction window, in which you cannot possibly have bonded validators, and you must fall back to centralized selection.
- Will increasing the induction time to 7 days resolve the problem.
- Do we have a solution to the Prisoner's dilemma? reference:
- Transaction receipts (in lieu of every validator validating every shard that shares cross-shard state) create a Prisoner’s dilemma. It doesn’t matter if you model the self-referential consensus-by-betting with the Pi calculus, because such a process model does not model such economically driven externalities.
Day 3: Location 3: Type Checker Design (Mike, Kent, Griff, Joe, Timm)
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Day 4: Location 1: Rholang Lab (Mike, Kent, Griff, Alex, Timm)
- TBD
Day 4: Location 2: Documentation (Timm, Alex, Mike, Joe, Kent, Navneet)
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