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     1  # ADR 018: ABCI Validator Improvements
     2  
     3  ## Changelog
     4  
     5  016-08-2018: Follow up from review: - Revert changes to commit round - Remind about justification for removing pubkey - Update pros/cons
     6  05-08-2018: Initial draft
     7  
     8  ## Context
     9  
    10  ADR 009 introduced major improvements to the ABCI around validators and the use
    11  of Amino. Here we follow up with some additional changes to improve the naming
    12  and expected use of Validator messages.
    13  
    14  ## Decision
    15  
    16  ### Validator
    17  
    18  Currently a Validator contains `address` and `pub_key`, and one or the other is
    19  optional/not-sent depending on the use case. Instead, we should have a
    20  `Validator` (with just the address, used for RequestBeginBlock)
    21  and a `ValidatorUpdate` (with the pubkey, used for ResponseEndBlock):
    22  
    23  ```
    24  message Validator {
    25      bytes address
    26      int64 power
    27  }
    28  
    29  message ValidatorUpdate {
    30      PubKey pub_key
    31      int64 power
    32  }
    33  ```
    34  
    35  As noted in [ADR-009](adr-009-ABCI-design.md),
    36  the `Validator` does not contain a pubkey because quantum public keys are
    37  quite large and it would be wasteful to send them all over ABCI with every block.
    38  Thus, applications that want to take advantage of the information in BeginBlock
    39  are _required_ to store pubkeys in state (or use much less efficient lazy means
    40  of verifying BeginBlock data).
    41  
    42  ### RequestBeginBlock
    43  
    44  LastCommitInfo currently has an array of `SigningValidator` that contains
    45  information for each validator in the entire validator set.
    46  Instead, this should be called `VoteInfo`, since it is information about the
    47  validator votes.
    48  
    49  Note that all votes in a commit must be from the same round.
    50  
    51  ```
    52  message LastCommitInfo {
    53    int64 round
    54    repeated VoteInfo commit_votes
    55  }
    56  
    57  message VoteInfo {
    58      Validator validator
    59      bool signed_last_block
    60  }
    61  ```
    62  
    63  ### ResponseEndBlock
    64  
    65  Use ValidatorUpdates instead of Validators. Then it's clear we don't need an
    66  address, and we do need a pubkey.
    67  
    68  We could require the address here as well as a sanity check, but it doesn't seem
    69  necessary.
    70  
    71  ### InitChain
    72  
    73  Use ValidatorUpdates for both Request and Response. InitChain
    74  is about setting/updating the initial validator set, unlike BeginBlock
    75  which is just informational.
    76  
    77  ## Status
    78  
    79  Proposal.
    80  
    81  ## Consequences
    82  
    83  ### Positive
    84  
    85  - Clarifies the distinction between the different uses of validator information
    86  
    87  ### Negative
    88  
    89  - Apps must still store the public keys in state to utilize the RequestBeginBlock info
    90  
    91  ### Neutral
    92  
    93  - ResponseEndBlock does not require an address
    94  
    95  ## References
    96  
    97  - [Latest ABCI Spec](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/v0.22.8/docs/app-dev/abci-spec.md)
    98  - [ADR-009](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/v0.22.8/docs/architecture/adr-009-ABCI-design.md)
    99  - [Issue #1712 - Don't send PubKey in
   100    RequestBeginBlock](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/issues/1712)