Glossary- JIT Routing

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    Invoices include the payment hash, the amount, a description and the expiry time.
    Invoices can also include a fallback Bitcoin address to which the payment can be made in case no route can be found, as well as hints for routing a payment through a private channel.

+JIT Routing::
+   "Just in Time" Routing. 
+   An alternative to source-based routing first proposed by co-author René Pickhardt.
+   With JIT routing, intermediary nodes along a path can pause an in-flight payment to rebalance their channels. 
+   This might allow them to successfully forward payments that might otherwise have failed due to lack of outgoing capacity. 
+
 Lightning message::
   A Lightning message is an encrypted data string that can be sent between two peers on the Lightning Network. Similar to other communication protocols Lightning messages consist of a header and a body. The header and the body have their own HMAC. This ensures that the headers of fixed length will also be encrypted and adversaries won't be able to figure out what messages are being sent by inspecting the length.