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+package netann
+
+import (
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/btcsuite/btcd/wire"
+)
+
+// ChanStatus is a type that enumerates the possible states a ChanStatusManager
+// tracks for its known channels.
+type ChanStatus uint8
+
+const (
+	// ChanStatusEnabled indicates that the channel's last announcement has
+	// the disabled bit cleared.
+	ChanStatusEnabled ChanStatus = iota
+
+	// ChanStatusPendingDisabled indicates that the channel's last
+	// announcement has the disabled bit cleared, but that the channel was
+	// detected in an inactive state. Channels in this state will have a
+	// disabling announcement sent after the ChanInactiveTimeout expires
+	// from the time of the first detection--unless the channel is
+	// explicitly reenabled before the disabling occurs.
+	ChanStatusPendingDisabled
+
+	// ChanStatusDisabled indicates that the channel's last announcement has
+	// the disabled bit set.
+	ChanStatusDisabled
+)
+
+// ChannelState describes the ChanStatusManager's view of a channel, and
+// describes the current state the channel's disabled status on the network.
+type ChannelState struct {
+	// Status is the channel's current ChanStatus from the POV of the
+	// ChanStatusManager.
+	Status ChanStatus
+
+	// SendDisableTime is the earliest time at which the ChanStatusManager
+	// will passively send a new disable announcement on behalf of this
+	// channel.
+	//
+	// NOTE: This field is only non-zero if status is
+	// ChanStatusPendingDisabled.
+	SendDisableTime time.Time
+}
+
+// channelStates is a map of channel outpoints to their channelState. All
+// changes made after setting an entry initially should be made using receiver
+// methods below.
+type channelStates map[wire.OutPoint]ChannelState
+
+// markEnabled creates a channelState using ChanStatusEnabled.
+func (s *channelStates) markEnabled(outpoint wire.OutPoint) {
+	(*s)[outpoint] = ChannelState{
+		Status: ChanStatusEnabled,
+	}
+}
+
+// markDisabled creates a channelState using ChanStatusDisabled.
+func (s *channelStates) markDisabled(outpoint wire.OutPoint) {
+	(*s)[outpoint] = ChannelState{
+		Status: ChanStatusDisabled,
+	}
+}
+
+// markPendingDisabled creates a channelState using ChanStatusPendingDisabled
+// and sets the ChannelState's SendDisableTime to sendDisableTime.
+func (s *channelStates) markPendingDisabled(outpoint wire.OutPoint,
+	sendDisableTime time.Time) {
+
+	(*s)[outpoint] = ChannelState{
+		Status:          ChanStatusPendingDisabled,
+		SendDisableTime: sendDisableTime,
+	}
+}