As of now, Multiaddr stores a byte array, representing the serialized version of the address.
Although this allows very fast serialization (array copy), I believe this is not the most appropriate format.
Indeed, operations on Multiaddr (eg. decapsulate) actually work on the list of protocols, and not on the byte representation. The bug mentioned in PR #18 is a good example of it.
I see two possible representations:
- Make Multiaddr store a 
Vec<Addr>, with Addr being an Enum for all supported protocols 
- Make Multiaddr only store an 
Addr and an Option<Multiaddr> for the inner and/or outer multiaddr.