BIPinformationaladdresses

BIP155: include changes from followup discussions

* Increase the maximum length of an address from 32 to 512 bytes and clarify that the entire message should be rejected if it contains a longer address. (from https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/766#issuecomment-519248699) * Remove a contradiction about unknown address types - "MUST ignore" VS "MAY store and gossip". * Recommend gossiping addresses for unknown network ID and for networks to which the node is not currently connected to. (from https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/

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Increase the maximum length of an address from 32 to 512 bytes and clarify that the entire message should be rejected if it contains a longer address. (from https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/766#issuecomment-519248699)
Remove a contradiction about unknown address types - "MUST ignore" VS "MAY store and gossip".
Recommend gossiping addresses for unknown network ID and for networks to which the node is not currently connected to. (from https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/766#issuecomment-545067608)
Clarify that the entire message should be rejected if it contains an address with unexpected size (e.g. IPv4 address with length 5).

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