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04-Packet-Flow-v2 #1148

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@sangier sangier commented Sep 11, 2024

This PR introduces the draft specification for the IBC version 2 ICS-04: Channel and Packet Semantics.

It formalizes the semantics for channel creation, counterparty registration, and packet flow management in IBC version 2 taking into account all the v2 spec changes.

Closes #1140

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Great start!! I really like the explanations you gave for the Counterparty

A couple major tweaks as you continue working on this:

  • We need to decide on a new name for Counterparty and make Channel a clear use again in the specification
  • We need to not tie client id to channel id (aliasing approach)
  • The ICS24 paths and commitments need to follow their new v2 specification as defined in ICS24 README and PACKET.md

- The `nextSequenceSend`, stored separately, tracks the sequence number for the next packet to be sent.

```typescript
function nextSequenceSendPath(sourceID: bytes, destID: bytes): Path {
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This shouldn't be keyed on the string clients.

And there's no need for there to be both source and destId. Since we only need our sides' identifier to uniquely key on the channel.

It can just be

nextSequenceSend/{sourceId}

@@ -190,10 +167,23 @@ The architecture of clients, connections, channels and packets:

#### Store paths

NOTE do we stil need this, or we can retrieve the sequence from the commitment path associated with the clientID?
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We still need this. We want to keep a track of the nonce

Channel structures are stored under a store path prefix unique to a combination of a port identifier and channel identifier:

```typescript
function channelPath(portIdentifier: Identifier, channelIdentifier: Identifier): Path {
function channelPath(portIdentifier: bytes, channelIdentifier: bytes): Path {
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Not necessary


Constant-size commitments to packet data fields are stored under the packet sequence number:

```typescript
function packetCommitmentPath(portIdentifier: Identifier, channelIdentifier: Identifier, sequence: uint64): Path {
return "commitments/ports/{portIdentifier}/channels/{channelIdentifier}/sequences/{sequence}"
function packetCommitmentPath(sourceId: bytes, sequence: uint64): Path {
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the sequence needs to be in bigEndian format. See ICS24 for details

}
```

Packet acknowledgement data are stored under the `packetAcknowledgementPath`:

```typescript
function packetAcknowledgementPath(portIdentifier: Identifier, channelIdentifier: Identifier, sequence: uint64): Path {
return "acks/ports/{portIdentifier}/channels/{channelIdentifier}/sequences/{sequence}"
function packetAcknowledgementPath(sourceId: bytes, sequence: uint64): Path {
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ditto

Comment on lines 343 to 344
sourceClientId: bytes,
destClientId: bytes,
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Must use ChannelIds

provableStore.set(
packetCommitmentPath(sourcePort, sourceChannel, sequence),
hash(hash(data), timeoutHeight, timeoutTimestamp)
// Note do we need to keep the channelStore? Should this be instead the counterParty store or something similar? Do we keep it for backward compatibility?
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It should just be the provableStore

// Note do we need to keep the channelStore? Should this be instead the counterParty store or something similar? Do we keep it for backward compatibility?
channelStore.set(
packetCommitmentPath(sourceClientId sequence),
hash(hash(data), timeoutTimestamp)
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This is wrong, we need to use the commitment function defined in PACKET.md

break;
}
merklePath,
hash(packet.data, packet.timeoutTimestamp)
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need to use Commitment function defined in PACKET.md


channelStore.set(
packetReceiptPath(packet.sourceChannelId, packet.sequence),
SUCCESSFUL_RECEIPT
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Must define this

@sangier sangier marked this pull request as ready for review October 15, 2024 10:45
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Nice start @sangier !

We should also check the counterparty channel id is as expected in the packet handlers

Comment on lines 84 to 88
An `OpaquePacket` is a packet, but cloaked in an obscuring data type by the host state machine, such that a module cannot act upon it other than to pass it to the IBC handler. The IBC handler can cast a `Packet` to an `OpaquePacket` and vice versa.

```typescript
type OpaquePacket = object
```
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Don't think this is necessary

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Let's remove all references to OpaquePacket and just use Packet


```typescript
interface Acknowledgement {
appAcknowledgement: [bytes] // array of bytes. Each element of the array contains an acknowledgement from a specific application
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This is not an array of bytes, but an array of an array of bytes

byte[][] not byte[]


Given a scenario where we are sending a packet from a sender chain `A` to a receiver chain `B` the protocol follows the following rules:

- Sender `A` can call either {`sendPacket`,`acknowledgePacket`,`timeoutPacket`}
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Hmm don't think this is so clear since it sounds like you can call either in any order at any time

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At the beginning, Sender A can only call sendPacket

function sendPacket(
sourceChannelId: bytes,
timeoutTimestamp: uint64,
payloads: []byte
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This should be a list of Payload concrete type

// Executes Application logic ∀ Payload
payload=packet.data[0]
cbs = router.callbacks[payload.destPort]
ack,success = cbs.onReceivePacket(packet.channelDestId,payload,relayer,packet.sequence) // Note that payload includes the version. The application is required to inspect the version to route the data to the proper callback
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Discussing with @chatton about #1141 we realised that it would be beneficial to pass the entire packet + payload to the onRecv onAck onTimeout callbacks.
Indeed, the ics20v2 the packet is stored in the packetForwardPath e.g

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Nice work!! I think this can be made more readable in the future once we decide on the future format of the v2 specs. Fixing the small errors and merging for now.

Thanks for the excellent writeup!

@AdityaSripal AdityaSripal merged commit 14100d4 into feat/v2-spec Nov 6, 2024
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@AdityaSripal AdityaSripal deleted the stefano/04-packet-flow-v2 branch November 6, 2024 18:27
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