A few months back, William Swanson and I had worked on a more general script template format. Unfortunately, other work has prevented us from being able to fully complete it - but here’s the start:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nGF6LjGwhzuiJ9AQwKAhN1a1SXvGGHWxoKmDSkiIsPI <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nGF6LjGwhzuiJ9AQwKAhN1a1SXvGGHWxoKmDSkiIsPI>/

- Eric Lombrozo

> On Feb 12, 2015, at 11:53 PM, Peter Todd <pete@petertodd.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:13:33PM +0000, Luke Dashjr wrote:
>> Where is the Specification section?? Does this support arbitrary scripts, or
>> only the simplest CHECKMULTISIG case?
> 
> It might be enough to rewrite this BIP to basically say "all pubkeys
> executed by all CHECKMULTISIG opcodes will be in the following canonical
> order", followed by some explanatory examples of how to apply this
> simple rule.
> 
> OTOH we don't yet have a standard way of even talking about arbitrary
> scripts, so it may very well turn out to be the case that the above rule
> is too restrictive in many cases - I certainly would not want to do a
> soft-fork to enforce this, or even make it an IsStandard() rule.
> 
> --
> 'peter'[:-1]@petertodd.org
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