Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP62 and future script upgrades

[Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com>]

Ok, addressed these (and a few other things) in
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/117:
* Better names for the rules.
* Clarify interaction of BIP62 with P2SH.
* Clarify that known hashtypes are required, despite not being part of DER.
* Use v2 transactions instead of v3 transactions.
* Apply the optional rules only to strict v2, and not higher or lower.


On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 12:00:43PM -0800, Pieter Wuille wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
>> >> On another topic, I'm skeptical of the choice of nVersion==3 - we'll
>> >> likely end up doing more block.nVersion increases in the future, and
>> >> there's no reason to think they'll have anything to do with
>> >> transactions. No sense creating a rule that'll be so quickly broken.
>> >
>> > Moderately agreed.
>> >
>> > Earlier in BIP 62 lifetime, I had commented on ambiguity that arose
>> > from bumping tx version simply because we were bumping block version.
>> > The ambiguity was corrected, but IMO remains symptomatic of potential
>> > problems and confusion down the road.
>> >
>> > Though I ACK'd the change, my general preference remains to disconnect
>> > TX and block version.
>>
>> I prefer to see consensus rules as one set of rules (especially
>> because they only really apply to blocks - the part for lone
>> transactions is just policy), and thus have a single numbering. Still,
>> I have no strong opinion about it and have now heard 3 'moderately
>> against' comments. I'm fine with using nVersion==2 for transactions.
>
> Keep in mind that we may even have a circumstance where we need to
> introduce *two* different new tx version numbers in a single soft-fork,
> say because we find an exploit that has two different fixes, each of
> which breaks something.
>
> I don't think we have any certainty how new features will be added in
> the future - just look at how we only recently realised new opcodes
> won't be associated with tx version number bumps - so I'm loath to setup
> expectations.
>
> Besides, transactions can certainly be verified for correctness in a
> stand-alone fashion outside a block; CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY was
> specifically designed so that verifying scripts containing it could be
> done in a self-contained manner only referencing the transaction the
> script was within.
>
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