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RFC v0.4: freeq.at/act — stateful, signed, addressed actions for IRCv3

(with handoff as the first action kind)

Status: draft / request for comments · Authors: Chad Fowler & zapnap (freeq) · Audience: agent-coordination builders, IRCv3, AT Protocol

This is a casual RFC. Poke holes in it.

What changed since v0.3 (thanks to review feedback): (1) Invalid ≠ unverifiable. The validator now distinguishes a bad signature (reject, like an illegal transition) from an unverifiable one (the key's origin server is unreachable — defer and retry, never reject). v0.3 conflated a forgery with a third-party outage and turned transient network blips into permanent, silent action loss. The same stall-not-fork stance we already took for an unreachable minting server now applies to key lookup. (2) The canonical is no longer a fixed field list. The signature covers every act-* tag present, sorted — so new kinds can add fields without a canonical version bump, and there is no such th

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RFC: freeq.at/handoff — a durable, signed task-handoff primitive for IRCv3

Status: draft / request for comments · Author: Chad Fowler (freeq) · Audience: anyone building agent coordination, IRCv3 folks, AT Protocol folks

This is a casual RFC. Poke holes in it.

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Notes and recommended reading from my talk at Yow! on The Future of Software Development

Feel free to talk to me on twitter: @chadfowler

• FileCoin
• Stdlib
• Create an Infinitely Scalable, "Serverless" Music Recommendation Engine With StdLib
• Open Source Everything Manifesto
• FaaSLang
• oscoin

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function(thing) { alert(thing) } // l33t

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class TheMigrationClass < AR::Migration
  class Conference < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_many :attendances
  end
  
  class Attendance < ActiveRecord::Base
  end
  
  def change
    # normal migration code

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