Re: [Bitcoin-development] Two Proposed BIPs - Bluetooth Communication and bitcoin: URI Scheme Improvements

[Justus Ranvier <justus.ranvier@monetas.net>]

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On 10/20/2014 12:50 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> One thing this brings up is the never-resolved issue of whether
> BIPs should document how we'd *like* things to work, or how things
> *actually do* work. BIP32 is an example of the former - it was new
> technology and the spec was finalised before any wallets actually
> implemented it. BIP 44 is an example of the latter, it basically
> documents how myTREZOR works and as such there was minimal or no
> scope for changes to it. Of course both kinds of document are
> valuable.

You also have things like BIP43 that encourage people to reserve BIP
numbers to avoid namespace collisions even if their work does not
affect any other project.

There should be an efficient process for informational BIPs of this type.

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