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From: Gavin Andresen <gavinandresen@gmail.com>
To: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS)
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:57:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CABsx9T0y601kjJ7ToczwhcQUoh3NZbuPa+iWwtm6-DZxZSRNPg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21269.192.251.226.206.1316448084.squirrel@lavabit.com>

New 'standard' transaction forms would be perfect candidates for BEPS.

I think we aught to have a formal proposal to separate the protocol
version from the client version, too.

--

Does anybody besides me think maybe we should name them something
other than "BEP" ?

I'm worried we'll regret it in two years when a google for "BEP003"
takes you to the BitTorrent EPs instead of the BitCoin EPs.

Maybe "BIP" == Bitcoin Improvement Proposal
or "PEB" == Proposal to Enhance Bitcoin
or "BER" == Bitcoin Enhancement Request

I think I like "BIP"  (PEB sounds like a diet soda, and I don't know
if BER should be pronounced "bear" or "beer").

I generally don't care about names, but it seems like a little
planning now might save some confusion later. And I don't want the
BitTorrent folks to get pissed off at us for 'stealing' their acronym,
either.


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Gavin Andresen



  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-19 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-19  1:04 [Bitcoin-development] Bitcoin Enhancement Proposals (BEPS) Luke-Jr
2011-09-19  3:22 ` Alex Waters
2011-09-19 16:01   ` bgroff
2011-09-19 16:57     ` Gavin Andresen [this message]
2011-09-19 17:23       ` Alex Waters
2011-09-20  2:06       ` Amir Taaki
2011-09-23 19:45       ` Daniel F
2011-09-25  3:27         ` Amir Taaki
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-19  0:31 Amir Taaki

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