# Manas(Hopinheimer) - Week 11

### Updates

- After discussions this week we were able to narrow down on first-draft specifications for the Rated List DHT [repo](https://github.com/dankrad/rated-list-specs). the foundational components like the scoring function and RPC functions are finalized.
- We have decided to move from creating a full flegde rated list client to a simulation setup. This is was purely because is RLD spec is WIP simulating gives us the flexibility to run performance metrics and iterate on the spec itself.
- I have start work on the simulator, which would be a python based simulator vaguely similar to codex's [DAS simulator](https://github.com/codex-storage/das-research)
- we have 3 components to our project at this stage.
- py-spec tests which would be used further by client teams to implement the RLD
- RLD simulator in python
- formal specification research paper that would be published for an academic review.

### plans for week 12

- working implementation of RLD simulator.
- further research on the spec.
- initial developments on the py-spec

*in colab with dankrad, pop, chirag, ashely, codex team members*