Gossipsub Message ID across topics

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I have a use case that calls for the following:

Using pubsub/gossipsub:

  • Peers can optionally subscribe to N topics.
  • Messages can be valid on a subset of the N topics.
  • Messages should be published on each of the topics they are valid on.

Ideally, a peer only requests an IWANT for a message once, even though it may have been notified of the same message across multiple topics.

I’m currently running into the following issue:

  • If I use a different message_id for each topic, the peer will IWANT the same logical message multiple times, increasing network traffic.
  • If I use the same message_id for each topic, the seen cache will reject the publish. Thus, a message can only be sent on one topic.

Is there a way that I can achieve this?

Potential solution:

seen cache is scoped to a topic during publish, but is cross-topic when issuing IWANT messages