Gud Boi
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it lands" framing in plan-03 and the example README was stale in both directions: the branch pin is obsolete, yet you still can't just `pip install multiaddr`. Deats, - §3.2's grammar table is now re-verified against the upstream merge (`f86519da`) rather than only `baudco@wg_support` in a throwaway venv. Also notes the codec enforces a 32-byte key, so a truncated one is a `StringParseError` and not a silently mangled parse. - §1 says merged-but-unreleased; the still-open work is spec registration (py-multiaddr#107 + gh #483). - §3.4 swaps "pin the branch" for the `[tool.uv.sources]` `rev` pin, and fixes the `_have_wg_maddr_proto()` recipe it suggested — probing w/ `Multiaddr('/wg/uAAAA')` now ALWAYS raises bc the codec wants 32B, i.e. that feature-detect would report `False` even w/ the proto perfectly well known. - risk table row goes "#108 not merged" -> "merged but unreleased". - example README: `uv sync` alone now suffices bc of the pin; documents the 32B check and points at `_have_wg_maddr_proto()` as the gate. The one surviving `baudco` mention is deliberate, it records where the grammar was *first* verified. (this patch was generated in some part by `claude-code` using `claude-opus-5` (`anthropic`)) |
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README.md
next-gen tractor.ipc transport backend plans
Implementation specs for three prospective .ipc transport backends, written so each can be worked independently (by a different model/provider) without design or lib-selection drift.
Read 00_shared_backend_contract.md first — it is the normative description of what a tractor transport backend is as of main@83b34884 (the backend duck-type, the 10-item registration checklist, the test-harness plumbing, the code-style rules). The three plans assume it and document only their own deltas.
| plan | issue | dep | size | lands |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 — TIPC | #378 | none (stdlib) | small | first |
02 — QUIC/iroh |
#353 | iroh (uniffi FFI) |
large | needs a prep PR |
03 — wg bindspace |
#482, #443 | pyroute2 |
medium, 3 layers | layer A now |
Headline conclusions:
- TIPC is the cheap win. Verified:
trio.SocketStreamandtrio.SocketListenerare address-family agnostic (onlySOCK_STREAM+ a trio socket), and CPython shipsAF_TIPC+ 23TIPC_*constants. So the backend is ~one module of contract boilerplate, zero new deps, and it buys kernel-native service discovery:bind()publishes,connect()-by-name resolves — no registrar in the loop. (modprobe tipcis required; hard-gate everything.) - QUIC’s cost is entirely in two adapters, not in QUIC. The
irohpython bindings areuniffi-generated asyncio, but the asyncio dependency is confined to one future-poll callback — a ~40-linetriobridge (TrioToken.run_sync_soon) replaces it. The second cost is that an iroh listener isn’t a socket, which needs a small, independently-reviewable prep PR to_server.py/_types.py. - WireGuard is not a transport. It’s an iface-layer tunnel, so it belongs as a nested bindspace (
TunnelledAddress+open_bindspace()@acms) wrapping whatever L4 tpt is in use — which is also what finally implements the long-spec’dAddress.namespace, and what generalizes toveth/vxlan/gre.
Ordering rationale: plan 01 first as the cheap proof the table-registration story generalizes to a genuinely new proto; plan 03 layer A is already deployable-today doc/example work; plan 02 last (and gated on its prep PR). Plans 01 and 02 both want the same Address.rebind_from_sockname gate — whichever lands first ships it.