From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 11153482 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:51:35 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.6 Received: from mail-oi0-f41.google.com (mail-oi0-f41.google.com [209.85.218.41]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 749E516B for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:51:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by oigd21 with SMTP id d21so104182281oig.1 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 08:51:34 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:from:subject:to:references:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=abRE5I06tQL+wtnuwqsTQpvHxTjN65DrZ9eNbD6b6uk=; b=RnMzVUvDZ+8m7BKdYqOPGZg4VYkHFUuTKrZ2TjPH1a1Bw/c3aN9Nyxsib6zjcpkC7k 2TaDSkIFnh93PYgyWVbxt4a3qh8FeZytrPtwyPTI23G7KlAJvdaqTIiVzIsNQ2V5IyHo TiNItN/JKj3TAlqwP6qobsc023u4A2/J3AeScfKGdIjzwJxn9k7j2eRRlPJPUpAveIlS 1TJgA2W75ipKz8bMjc8ZeSOFYASp9r29PuFAPYcrchBJqbeLUgRydf+0tEn6dCUqH2l5 n3DThKAmUu0p/LCQORzqCM48U0tKH6ViMhVl7u73cvsm/oqveeb6O1Ug4Lnx7soC503D CfIA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQn9zyyyssGG3rvTJ4oUQGuog3FxyaLoahB9xBw+H2OWBkH4sXLMBhJzKZTbCdObzYJc35oa X-Received: by 10.60.174.39 with SMTP id bp7mr3508616oec.70.1437580293949; Wed, 22 Jul 2015 08:51:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.100.1.239] ([204.58.254.99]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id j2sm976280obh.16.2015.07.22.08.51.32 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 22 Jul 2015 08:51:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Harding To: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org References: <55A9421B.6040605@jrn.me.uk> <55AC29DB.4060800@jrn.me.uk> <20150721130412.GA4551@savin.petertodd.org> <20150721135846.GB13429@savin.petertodd.org> Message-ID: <55AFBBFB.5040101@thinlink.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 08:51:23 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150721135846.GB13429@savin.petertodd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on smtp1.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] BIP 102 - kick the can down the road to 2MB X-BeenThere: bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Bitcoin Development Discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2015 15:51:35 -0000 On 7/21/2015 6:58 AM, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Re: BIP #'s, we explicitly have a policy of allocating them for stupid > ideas, to avoid having to be gatekeepers. Ironically that makes it > harder to get a BIP # if you know what you're doing, because Gregory > Maxwell will argue against you in private and delay actually > allocating one if he knows you should know better. :) Kalle asked for a BIP# for his PoP standardization proposal one month ago. Should he have known better?