2019-05-07 Meeting notes: validation walkthrough

Date

May 7, 2019

Participants

  • @Kelly Foster

  • @Pawel Szulc

  • @Former user (Deleted)

  • @Łukasz Gołębiewski

  • @Lucius Meredith

  • @Adam Szkoda

  • @Artur Gajowy

  • @Timm Schäuble

  • @Kayvan Kazeminejad

  • @Dominik Zajkowski

  • @Tomáš Virtus

  • @Chris Boscolo

  • @Sebastian Bach

Goals

Kent walks through the validation protocol. We discuss and document changes. There is clarity for the work to do during the week.

Discussion topics

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Resources

Fault tolerance

  • Kent described definitions and understanding of fault tolerance

Consensus specification

  • Point to https://rchain.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/CORE/pages/412024951

  • Discussion about slashing API section

  • RECOMMENDATION “Challenge our constants” When we have constants in specifications, we need to ensure they are truly constants in the runtime.

    • Some constants will be defined and governed by Coop policy

Slashing for invalid blocks

  • Discussion about how equivocations, justifications, and slashing for invalid blocks works.

Sidebars

  • (what did Ovidiu ask?)

Action items

@Former user (Deleted) name the bullets in the slashing api section of to support diagramming.
@Former user (Deleted) update slashing api section

Decisions