Re: Interledger RFCs, ILP Packet, and Ledger Plugin Interface

Melvin, I think I remember someone saying that ledgers containing different
currencies would be considered as separate ledgers, with each currency
being it's own ledger.

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On 1 June 2016 at 00:22, Evan Schwartz <evan@ripple.com> wrote:
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>> I want call your attention to the Interledger RFCs repo
>> <https://github.com/interledger/rfcs>, and to three of the documents in
>> particular. These reflect the latest ideas, which includes some new
>> developments that clarify the structure of Interledger and make the analogy
>> between Interledger and the internet protocols even stronger.
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>>    - IL-RFC-1: Interledger Architecture
>>    <https://github.com/interledger/rfcs/blob/master/0001-interledger-architecture/0001-interledger-architecture.md>
>>    This provides an overview of how the protocols in the Interledger
>>    suite fit together and may be useful for answering the question "so what
>>    *is* interledger?" (the whitepaper is more a theoretical defense of
>>    the concepts underpinning interledger, rather than a description of the
>>    components and how they work)
>>    - IL-RFC-3: Interledger Protocol
>>    <https://github.com/interledger/rfcs/blob/master/0003-interledger-protocol/0003-interledger-protocol.md>
>>    This spec describes the ILP Packet format (a new and important
>>    concept), which is heavily inspired by IP packets. Notably, it only
>>    includes the destination address, destination amount and a nextHeader field
>>    for adding additional headers (inspired by IPv6's extension format). It
>>    does not include conditions, because we realized those actually fit into
>>    "transport layer" protocols such as Universal and Atomic.
>>    - IL-RFC-4: Ledger Plugin Interface
>>    <https://github.com/interledger/rfcs/blob/master/0004-ledger-plugin-interface/0004-ledger-plugin-interface.md>
>>    This is the Interledger protocol, right? So it's time for us to be
>>    able to support other types of ledgers. This spec defines the abstraction
>>    layer we will use to enable Interledger payments over new ledger types
>>    (Bitcoin, Ethereum, BigchainDB, etc). We'll be refactoring the
>>    five-bells-sender and -connector to use this interface. The goal is to make
>>    supporting new ledgers as easy as writing a library that defines these
>>    functions and plugging it in to the existing client and connector code
>>    bases.
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>> As the name suggests, these are requests for comments, so comment away!
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>> These are all still drafts (and the other specs in the repo are just
>> placeholders for now) but we're excited about these developments and
>> realizations so we wanted to make sure you saw them.
>>
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> Great job on the modularity.
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> Question:  why should a ledger contain only one type of currency?  In my
> wallets the ledgers can contain multiple currencies.  Perhaps this is just
> a naming issue.
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>> --
>> Evan Schwartz | Software Architect | Ripple
>> [image: ripple.com] <http://ripple.com>
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