[ETH1.X call 2 - Tuesday Dec 17th] Next Steps and Collecting Research Topics

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Another less concrete topic which is floating around for some time:

Lowering Ethereum client implementations requirements for black-box testing

Lowering Ethereum client implementations requirements for black-box testing

Lowering Ethereum client implementations requirements for black-box testing (The title is my interpretation) @AlexeyAkhunov proposed some time ago to drive black-box testing by p2p network interface instead of RPC methods. This eliminates the need of having RPC module in an Ethereum client implementation. I also know this was recently discussed with @Andrei and he proposed (my interpretation) something in functionality similar to RPC but without inter-process communication — i.e. API / FFI all…