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From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP language on normative behavior
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:27:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112210927.11979.andyparkins@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1324429140.3740.YahooMailNeo@web121001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>

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On 2011 December 21 Wednesday, Amir Taaki wrote:

> In the original intention for BIP_0014, that would map to:
> 
> /Gecko:20110613/Firefox:6.0a2/Mozilla:5.0/
> 
> With something like WebKit, it becomes easy to see why that would be
> useful. You can suddenly do a network wide scan of all browsers using
> WebKit, rather than having to maintain a database of all WebKit enabled
> browsers.

This seems excellent to me.

I think most developers want to do the right thing when it comes to standards, 
and it is only the inflexibility or ambiguity of a standard that means they 
don't.

This heirarchical method lets every client supply all the information they 
have -- nobody has to make a decision to leave something out.  The internal 
debate they would have "is my gui version more important than my protocol 
engine version?" is unnecessary.



Andy

-- 
Dr Andy Parkins
andyparkins@gmail.com

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-21  9:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-19 22:29 [Bitcoin-development] BIP language on normative behavior Gregory Maxwell
2011-12-19 22:36 ` [Bitcoin-development] Lying about User Agent (was: BIP language on normative behavior) Luke-Jr
2011-12-21  0:59 ` [Bitcoin-development] BIP language on normative behavior Amir Taaki
     [not found]   ` <201112202007.49399.luke@dashjr.org>
2011-12-21  1:14     ` Amir Taaki
2011-12-21  9:27   ` Andy Parkins [this message]

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