Future discussion

In this document, we left out details of the following features:

  • Shard transfer and recovery upon storage epoch change: The encoding scheme used in Walrus has been designed to allow for highly efficient recovery in case of shard failures. A storage node attempting to recover slivers only needs to get data of the same magnitude as the missing data to reconstruct them.
  • Details of light clients that can be used to sample availability: Individual clients may sample the certified blobs from Sui metadata and sample the availability of some slivers that they store. On-chain bounties may be used to retrieve these slivers for missing blobs.