Relay Rules

Here we describe how players handle message events.

Whenever the player receives a message event, it may decide to relay that or another message. In this case, the player will produce that output before producing any subsequent output (which may result from the player’s observation of that message; see the broadcast rules below).

A player may receive messages from a misbehaving peer. These cases are marked with an asterisk (*) and enable the node to perform a special action (e.g., disconnect from the peer).

For examples of what these special actions may involve, see the non-normative Algorand Network Overview.

We say that a player ignores a message if it produces no outputs on receiving that message.