Eth2 Call 51

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Eth2 Call 51 Agenda

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Meeting Date/Time: Thursday 2020/10/29 at 14:00 GMT

Meeting Duration 1.5 hours

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1. Testing and Release Updates
2. State of Medalla
3. Client Updates
4. Research Updates
5. Networking
6. Spec discussion
7. Open Discussion/Closing Remarks

[mbaxter]

It would be helpful to discuss expected behavior for BlockByRange requests when historical blocks may be missing. Older blocks may be missing if a client starts up from a recent state rather than syncing from genesis.

How should we handle the case where a peer is requesting a range of blocks that start prior to the oldest available block? I can think of a few options for handling this:

• Return an error
• Return an empty response
• Return any sequence of blocks in the range that are available.

[benjaminion]

My notes: https://hackmd.io/@benjaminion/BJOIcBd_w