This is a response I made to the thread that didn't make it into the archive (I think) :https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2018-December/001752.html
Happy new year lightning-dev!
This topic is my main area of research at moment so I'm really happy to see a thread about it. In general I agree with ZmnSCPxj's analysis and conclusions. I'd like to add a couple of ideas to this discussion and would greatly appreciate some early peer review on them :)