From talking with Patrick Strateman (phantomcircuit), he suggested this idea (which I will elaborate more on in the BIP): User-agent strings are a good starting point, however they aren't easy for parsing so we'll make a small modification to them. We need a hierarchy from protocol, variant, gui, flavour, build /Satoshi:314700/bitcoin-qt:0.4/ How does that sound? In BitcoinJ's case: /BitcoinJ:0.2/AndroidBuild:0.8/ Thoughts: - Do we need a freely defined comments field? /BitcoinJ:0.2[iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2_1]/AndroidBuild:0.8/ /Satoshi:314700/bitcoin-qt:0.4[Ubuntu Oneiric]/ ________________________________ From: Christian Decker To: Mike Hearn Cc: Amir Taaki ; "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2011 2:45 PM Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Lock protocol version numbers On BitDroid I stopped updating the protocol version at 31700 and set the string to be both Version and Client, just like BitcoinJ :-) On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Mike Hearn wrote: BitCoinJ already sets the subver field to its name and version. > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >RSA(R) Conference 2012 >Save $700 by Nov 18 >Register now >http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 >_______________________________________________ >Bitcoin-development mailing list >Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development > >