From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.192] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-3.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Z6QDx-0002Vw-0c for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 20 Jun 2015 21:22:49 +0000 Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com ([209.85.212.179]) by sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1Z6QDv-0004nR-Pq for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 20 Jun 2015 21:22:48 +0000 Received: by wicgi11 with SMTP id gi11so44895120wic.0 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 2015 14:22:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=rHFUIl7xfw7c3eu11V11gVMJSpADkBbeiCV6Z+vUewo=; b=FHznWtE+Uhp8wK41MIEjACWd73/0cc0yD3jdOrLi+7H4kZwvOKhgQ5Bm4eejWscPWv vNY+Fkah4mcX7sFkHmMgoCyliBfaCCTXrHRNbppukhzm7szzNYfdRw2XMTDWABrCikll BEbnu2Mpn1NolLz5YKCql1JKmVK4Qwgjha5jk2fRijZrmEBLKxZEvjUB9eq1gynZejhw +RCAxsiJ6UpxFnt9rl6mpsM6wTTtGp6h6nOhuoWHKCECQxYELh4+ouQTQSzdp16c5/3I bOJEOHhW6jZjl3qbxY0UMLwM2RBJAINnZg9BVo+iIuC11zy6xDXl0d2F7NswozsyczYb fT0g== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnKvMS0p1hBszlDjvAqdp3VGnK+vvbMXEmmfPm7zqXG94nrQXuCnh74HDcpxRlou6adWyT1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.99.166 with SMTP id er6mr18361208wib.58.1434835361737; Sat, 20 Jun 2015 14:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.194.139.235 with HTTP; Sat, 20 Jun 2015 14:22:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 23:22:41 +0200 Message-ID: From: =?UTF-8?B?Sm9yZ2UgVGltw7Nu?= To: Bitcoin Dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Spam-Score: 0.5 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. 0.5 AWL AWL: Adjusted score from AWL reputation of From: address X-Headers-End: 1Z6QDv-0004nR-Pq Subject: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP draft] Motivation and deployment of consensus rules changes ([soft/hard]forks) X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 21:22:49 -0000 This is an attempt to unify views on why and how hardforks can be deployed. I would like to turn this into an informational BIP later after gathering some feedback. Please, do not discuss block size issues here: there's plenty of threads to do so. The scope of this one is only hardforks and softforks in a more abstract way. Sometimes block size changes are used as examples because no other example came to mind (non-blocksize-related examples for the same cases [or others] are a user should be just ignored. But what if the welcomed), and if we go into too much detail they stop being useful as examples. So please, try to avoid going into too much detail about the concrete examples when possible. https://github.com/jtimon/bips/blob/bip-forks/bip-forks.org Please, feel free to make suggestions or bike-shed some of the terms.