Is there any idea right now on how the future of protocol to send and receive messages to/from the IC from the outside world? As far as I understand an IC function call is wrapped in an Http Request, sent to a boundry node, which will then give the request to the IC, wait for a response, then retur…

DFINITY is working on a document on the functions of Boundary Nodes and their future. If you use an agent to interact with the IC you essentially use the native IC API that the replicas provide. Boundary Nodes only forward the request to a proper destination replica that hosts the particular canist…

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JaMarco June 19, 2022, 11:23pm 2

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