From 0dd8c50d3181ab57894ca4a4c7d9110bbc5127cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marten Seemann Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 20:51:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] a multiaddr is just a sequence of instructions --- addressing/README.md | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/addressing/README.md b/addressing/README.md index 713c1e15c..497c89ed9 100644 --- a/addressing/README.md +++ b/addressing/README.md @@ -74,8 +74,7 @@ multiaddr](#the-p2p-multiaddr). ### multiaddr basics -A multiaddr generally represents a path through a stack of successively -"higher-level" protocols that can be traversed to some destination. +A multiaddr sequence of instructions that can be traversed to some destination. For example, the `/ip4/7.7.7.7/tcp/1234` multiaddr starts with `ip4`, which is the lowest-level protocol that requires an address. The `tcp` protocol runs on