# SrLabs Calls

## Week: 18 June 2019
w: Fred, Kirill, Nicole

## Parity Update
- Networking work is at a solid place. No major flaws. Currently in the refactoring phase.
- LibP2p has you open substreams, has two protocols: i) discovery protocol ii) pinging protocol
- Going forward, we want to break it up more, i.e. syncing is one sub protocol

- Consensus work: Babe and Grandpa are both implemented. Have been run on Testnets

**Ask to SrLabs: spend most of your time on the Runtime work**
- Find bugs that break the system.
- The different modules have varying levels of stability

- All the Docs should be up to date

Fred: to provide a list of modules with stage of development, i.e. whether it’s stable (e.g. Balances) or not.

## Which Branch & Version
- Focus on Master branch
- Fred to follow up later with the particular commit that SrLbs should focus on.
- SrLabs will do some fuzzing of our networking layer
- Check out lighthouse project, they fuzz libp2p

## Questions from SrLabs
- What are the ext_ functions? Are they for off-chain http calls?
- Parachain security concern: Bad parachains can DOS the network.
- Cap the execution time
- Execute in a smaller consensus circle
- Spree
- Would be cool to see if we can find any sandbox escape tricks?

## Organization of the project
- Touch points: have a weekly sync up. Kirill can join every one.