bittorrent.org forums

[dosirrah]

There are forums now over at forum.bittorrent.org for protocol related discussions, proposal submissions, etc. In particular www.bittorrent.org describes the BitTorrent Enhancement Proposal (BEP) process and has about 20 beps so far for the community to review. Many of these are not by BitTorrent, inc. For example Michael Burford, John Hoffman, and Olaf van der Spek have all submitted BEPs. Furthermore, some of the BEPs were written in collaboration with people outside BitTorrent, e.g., Anthony Ciani co-authored the proposal for tracker peer obfuscation.

If you notice anything eerily familiar with the forums then you have correctly noticed that forum.bittorrent.org runs the same software with the same basic configuration and even on the SAME servers as forum.utorrent.com. Thank you Firon.

NOTE: All ideas in proposals submitted to bittorrent.org are required to be in the public domain. If you are a developer, you can be reasonably assured BEP authors will not ambush you with patent infringement lawsuits later on. If you propose an idea expect to be asked to assign in writing the idea to the public domain before it can be accepted as Final.

[jewelisheaven]

Great point. I don't think this has been noted before here. It's certainly nice for dedicated discussion as this sub-forum here doesn't always stick to protocol chatter.

[MERGE]

... Who are you? Why are you making multiple posts in multiple forums here about it. It even made the news last month with the Comcast brouhaha.

_{Edit (Ultima): Merged with post from other thread...}

[Ultima]

BitTorrent Inc employee. The point is to make it known that all well-defined proposed protocol extensions/enhancements should go in one central location for developers to find -- BitTorrent.org's BEPs.

Throwing posts all over the place does seem a bit funky, though I'll see about fixing it later.

Edit: Alright, so I've decided that the Protocol Design Discussion should be the place to keep the thread. This thread can continue to be discussion, I suppose. The Feature Requests thread seems... extraneous, so I'll bin it just for the sake of forum cleanliness.

The Protocol Design Discussion thread is stickied/closed (closed to keep it clean). /me thinks dosirrah needs to be given extra forum privileges so that he can edit the post where necessary.