MIP-0003

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MIP-0003 - Add Fountain Functionality As Native Feature

Presented to the Core Contributor Team on November 21, 2020 by user sputnik

Sponsor(s)

The following Core Contributors have "sponsored" this MIP.

Stackoverflo (talk · contribs) I think it's long overdue. I'll code it as an optional module at first and if the community agrees we'll add it to the mainline code.



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Problem Definition

Fountain services are presently operated by the Mochimo project, and while documentation exists for how to run a Fountain Service, it would be beneficial for this to simply be a built-in optional module for the full node code.

Solution Summary

Users will add a "fountain.addr" address file to the Mochimo Full Node startup directory, and then enable an additional command-line switch on node startup, to allow it to receive and process requests as a fountain node.

Hard Fork Required ?

No.

Technical Details

A global byte var "Fountain" is added to data.c to signal when the feature is enabled:

byte Fountain;        /* enable fountain service if true */
byte Max_reg;         /* Maximum number of simultaneous Tag registrations per block */
byte Pending_reg;     /* Number of pending Tag registrations during this block */


A new capability bit "C_FOUNTAIN" is added to types.h to signal the node has fountain service enabled:

#define C_FOUNTAIN   32

NOTE: At time of proposal CBIT 32 is the first available.

A command-line switch "r" is added to mochimo.c, and function usage() updated to reflect new switch "r":

void usage(void)
{
...
printf("usage: mochimo [-option...]\n"
"         -r[MAX_REGISTRATIONS]         enable Fountain / Tag Registration Service\n"


Function main() switch(argv[j][1]) updated to reflect new switch "r", set global var Fountain to true, and set node capability bit for C_FOUNTAIN:

case 'r':  Fountain = 1;  Cbits |= C_FOUNTAIN;  Max_registrations = atoi(&argv[j][2]); break;


A new OP_CODE is added to types.h to identify when an inbound transaction is a Tag registration request to the fountain service.

#define OP_REGISTER       20


An handler entry is added to "execute.c" to call the registration function, when a registration request is received:

int execute(NODE *np)
{
...
  switch(np->opcode) {
  ...
     case OP_REGISTER:
        /* Process a tag registration request if Fountain service is enabled. */
        if(Fountain) register(np);
        return 0;


Add a function to init.c to read in data from fountain1.addr and fountain2.addr:

...
int read_fountain()
{
... /* read fountain addresses from /bin/fountain */
... /* returns VEOK if successful */


Add a call to "read_fountain() in function init() if Fountain feature is enabled:

  ...
  if(Fountain) {
     /* Add addresses and keys to FountainArray[MAX_REGISTRATIONS*2][MAX_REGISTRATIONS*2] */
     if(read_fountain() != VEOK) error("init(): read_fountain() could not load fountain address files");
  }


Add a line to the server main loop in server.c to reset pending and maximum registrations on block update:

              if(update("rblock.dat", 0) == VEOK) {
              ...
                 Max_reg = 0;
                 Pending_reg = 0;
                 Cbits |= C_FOUNTAIN; /* Reset the Fountain bit */
                 /* Empty Registrant IP List */

The file "fountain.c" is added to the source directory with the processing logic for the new OP_CODE, as follows.

  1. If Pending_reg is greater than or equal to Max_reg: return 1.
  2. Increment Pending_reg.
  3. If Pending_reg equals Max_reg: Disable node capability bit for C_FOUNTAIN to signal to queriers that this node is not available to register tags.
  4. Received passed in node pointer, and extract the source address and tag into registry_address.
  5. Collect the node pointer registrant IP.
  6. Confirm the IP is not present in RegIPL. Return 1 if present, decrement Pending_reg, enable node capability bit for C_FOUNTAIN.
  7. Add registrant IP to RegIPL.
  8. Confirm the tag does not exist in the ledger.
  9. Read address from FountainArray[Pending_reg * 1][Pending_reg * 1] into reg1, key1
  10. Read address from FountainArray[Pending_reg * 2][Pending_reg * 1] into reg2, key2
  11. Craft a transaction from reg1 to registry_address, change to reg2, and sign with key1
  12. Craft a transaction from reg2 to registry_address, change to reg1, and sign with key2
  13. Connect to 4 random nodes on the current_peer list and send transactions reg1 and reg2 to them.