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From: Alan Reiner <etotheipi@gmail.com>
To: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] multisig, op_eval and lock_time/sequence...
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 12:25:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBEABFC.2080802@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP0LERYWrHmxzZYvzNauVF09YjLkHbPB=uty9v5p3Wck1g@mail.gmail.com>

Fair enough.  I'm not expecting anyone to just suddenly adopt BIP 0010 
just because I published it to the wiki.  I put it there to get feedback 
on what it might be missing, and maybe we can converge on a good 
preliminary solution.  Then update it as we start playing with it and 
find more features/fixes to add to it.

Right now, I have actually implemented BIP 0010 in my own client 
software (which is still a few weeks from even having an alpha version, 
but nontheless I'm actually implementing it). I'm going to use TxDPs in 
offline-wallet transactions, which is a nearly identical process (it's 
just a 1-of-1 transaction).  As such, I will be interested to test with 
some other client developers, whether they can easily use the TxDPs I 
produce.

I assume it doesn't bother you if I leave it the way it is, with the 
acknowledgment that I know no one is adopting it yet (except for 
myself).  It's informational, until we get a couple different clients, 
or at least test setup to play with it.

-Alan




On 11/12/2011 12:16 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> BIPs are either "standards track" (affects everyone, represents 
> consensus), "informational" (ie basically just summarizing the authors 
> viewpoints on things) or "process".
>
> My point is you can't have a credible standards track BIP until 
> something has been implemented end to end. I don't think it's a good 
> plan to design these things in isolation. You'll end up with bizarre 
> user experiences because of technical decisions taken months earlier 
> that are now hard to reverse. A working end to end implementation 
> gives you the confidence to say, yes, this is how it should work, 
> because here's the demo and you can see it works very well and the 
> code is clean.
>
> If your BIP is informational then no problems, but I don't think 
> there's much point in informational BIPs to be honest - it's easier to 
> just write an email or forum post summarizing your views on things. If 
> you find it a useful framework to write your thoughts in that's OK, 
> but don't expect implementors to follow what's written there just 
> because it's a BIP. It carries no more weight than any other document 
> would.
>
>




  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-12 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-09 10:22 [Bitcoin-development] multisig, op_eval and lock_time/sequence Michael Grønager
2011-11-09 14:43 ` Alan Reiner
2011-11-09 15:22   ` Alan Reiner
2011-11-09 19:13 ` Gavin Andresen
2011-11-09 20:02   ` Gavin Andresen
2011-11-09 20:31     ` Michael Grønager
2011-11-09 21:18       ` Gavin Andresen
2011-11-09 21:32         ` Joel Joonatan Kaartinen
2011-11-09 22:13     ` theymos
2011-11-09 20:03   ` Michael Grønager
2011-11-10  3:00     ` Alan Reiner
2011-11-10  9:55       ` Michael Grønager
2011-11-10 12:56         ` Alan Reiner
2011-11-12 16:58           ` Mike Hearn
2011-11-12 17:10             ` Alan Reiner
2011-11-12 17:16               ` Mike Hearn
2011-11-12 17:25                 ` Alan Reiner [this message]
2011-11-12 17:38                   ` Mike Hearn

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