Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP: Full Replace-by-Fee deployment schedule

[Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org>]

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On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 05:43:13AM +0000, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Luke Dashjr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:
> > Policy is node/miner fiat and not the domain of BIPs.
> 
> Even accepting the premise that policy is pure local fiat, the
> conclusion doesn't follow for me. BIPs about best practices or
> especially anything where interop or coordination are, I think,
> reasonable uses of the process.
> 
> E.g. you might want to know what other kinds of policy are in use if
> you're to have any hope of authoring transactions that work at all!

For example, consider Luke-Jr's own BIP19, M-of-N Standard Transactions,
a non-consensus-critical suggested policy change!

    https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0019.mediawiki

Anyway, full-RBF has significant impacts for wallet authors and many
other stakeholders. At minimum it changes how you will want to author
and (re)author transactions, much like BIP19 does.

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