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From: Gmail <will.yager@gmail.com>
To: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Proposed BIP 70 extension
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:28:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C95DB811-9E6A-4EA2-AE8F-83595C3AC817@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsx9T13yksenx5aYd4HVqTyVjARx9aTHy=Neu64p6k9FnRRVw@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Jun 24, 2014, at 16:12, Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It would be silly to add a "generic stuff" field inside a container format that ALREADY has all the mechanisms necessary for forwards and backwards extensibility.

I agree. It would be even sillier to start specifying container formats for random one-off "that would be kind of nice, I guess" features. 

How about exchange rate? Sharing links? Referral information? Any of these things are just as deserving of specification (and just as arbitrary). 

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-24 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-24 13:27 [Bitcoin-development] Proposed BIP 70 extension Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 14:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2014-06-24 14:24   ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 14:32     ` slush
2014-06-24 15:06       ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 15:15       ` Gmail
2014-06-24 15:48         ` Jeff Garzik
2014-06-24 19:00           ` Gmail
2014-06-24 19:34             ` Andy Alness
2014-06-24 20:12             ` Gavin Andresen
2014-06-24 20:28               ` Gmail [this message]
2014-06-25  8:25                 ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-25 13:33                   ` Jorge Timón
2014-06-25 18:10                     ` Jeff Garzik
2014-06-25 14:15                   ` slush
2014-06-25 16:03                     ` Gmail
2014-06-24 18:34   ` Roy Badami
2014-06-24 15:43 ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-06-24 15:59   ` Mike Hearn
2014-06-24 17:37 ` Drak

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