| 26 | | <p>The BitTorrent Community Forum coordinates the development of the BitTorrent protocol suite and its reference implementation. It is the wish of Bram Cohen that the BitTorrent remain open source and that the protocol development process be formalized and open to the BitTorrent developer community. At this point, the organizational structure and the procedures for proposing and specifying extensions to BitTorrent have not been defined, and we invite established client developers to join us in designing this organization.</p> |
| | 26 | <p>The BitTorrent Community Forum coordinates the development of the BitTorrent protocol suite and its reference implementation. It is the wish of Bram Cohen that the BitTorrent mainline python implementation remain open source and that the protocol development process be formalized and open to the BitTorrent developer community. |
| | 27 | </p> |
| | 28 | <p> People willing to perform roles in this organization should |
| | 29 | contact the interim editors: David Harrison or Arvid Norberg at |
| | 30 | editor@bittorrent.org. </p> |
| | 31 | <p> Those wishing to submit proposed protocol extensions, read the |
| | 32 | <a href="submissions.html"> submission instructions </a>. </p> |
| | 33 | |
| | 34 | <p> For now we present the original protocol as proposed by Bram Cohen and |
| | 35 | two extensions proposed by BitTorrent, Inc. |
| | 36 | </p> |
| 30 | | <li><a href="./fast_extensions.html">Fast Protocol Extensions</a></li><li><a href="./Draft_DHT_protocol.html">Experimental Draft: BitTorrent Trackerless DHT Protocol Specifications v1.0</a></li> |
| 31 | | </ul> |
| 32 | | <p>The original version of the protocol specifications written by Bram Cohen are currently being expanded to improve specificity. They will soon be made available for community review.</p> |
| 33 | | <p>The revised specifications to the protocol suite will cover:</p> |
| 34 | | <ul> |
| 35 | | <li>Torrent file syntax and semantics</li> |
| 36 | | <li>BitTorrent client-tracker protocol</li> |
| 37 | | <li>BitTorrent peer-to-peer protocol</li> |
| 38 | | <li>BitTorrent trackerless DHT protocol</li> |
| | 39 | <li><a href="./fast_extensions.html">Fast Protocol Extensions</a></li><li><a href="./Draft_DHT_protocol.html">Trackerless DHT Protocol Specifications v1.0</a></li> |
