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docs: add suggested default 12h for IPNS Entry TTL
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hacdias committed Oct 3, 2023
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description: >
Specifies the IPNS protocol in a language-agnostic manner, allowing everyone to
create a compatible IPNS Record Publisher or Resolver.
date: 2023-07-24
date: 2023-10-03
maturity: reliable
editors:
- name: Vasco Santos
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- Implementations MUST include this value in inside the DAG-CBOR document at `IpnsEntry.data[Sequence]`.

- **TTL** (uint64)
- A hint for how long the record should be cached before going back to, for instance the DHT, in order to check if it has been updated.
- A hint for how long (in nanoseconds) the record should be cached before going back to, for instance the DHT, in order to check if it has been updated.
- Implementations MUST include this value inside the DAG-CBOR document at `IpnsEntry.data[TTL]`.
- Suggested default: 1 hour (3 600 000 000 000 nanoseconds).


- **Public Key** (bytes)
- Public key used to sign this record.
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