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From: Martin Sustrik <sustrik@250bpm•com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@bitpay•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Development <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 09:38:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52677CF7.9070609@250bpm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJHLa0NDus+Ou5go8b_OHvjYW8f7oxXbpxnHTG3dcvxGR49nxA@mail.gmail.com>

On 22/10/13 16:08, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> All that is good practice, but we should avoid adding burdensome
> process that might discourage BIP writing.
>
> Consider a distributed approach:  if you feel a draft needs more
> sections or better language, submit a pull request yourself and help
> community-edit the document.

I would love to do so.

However, from what Peter Todd said above, my feeling was that spec is 
deliberately vague to force compatibility with the reference 
implementation rather than with a document.

While that kind of compatibility-via-obscurity won't probably work in a 
long run, in short run it can prevent proliferation of implementations 
and thus give protocol more space and flexibility to evolve (I've done 
the same trick with ZeroMQ myself once).

Anyway, if my impression was wrong I am happy to give it a try.

Martin




  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-23  7:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-21 14:30 Jeff Garzik
2013-10-21 14:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-10-21 15:46   ` Andreas Schildbach
2013-10-21 16:14     ` Jeff Garzik
2013-10-21 17:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2013-10-21 19:38   ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2013-10-21 19:47     ` Luke-Jr
2013-10-21 20:57       ` Benjamin Cordes
2013-10-21 20:59       ` Benjamin Cordes
2013-10-22  6:39       ` Martin Sustrik
2013-10-22  6:59         ` Jean-Paul Kogelman
2013-10-22  7:03           ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-10-22  7:34             ` Martin Sustrik
2013-10-22  7:49               ` Peter Todd
2013-10-22  7:56               ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-10-22  8:20                 ` Martin Sustrik
2013-10-22 14:08               ` Jeff Garzik
2013-10-23  7:38                 ` Martin Sustrik [this message]
2013-10-23 19:40                   ` Peter Todd
2013-10-23 20:05                     ` Martin Sustrik
2013-10-23 20:27                       ` Peter Todd
2013-10-23 21:07                         ` Pieter Wuille
2013-10-23 21:42                           ` Allen Piscitello
2013-10-23 21:49                             ` Luke-Jr
2013-10-24  7:03                           ` Martin Sustrik
2013-10-24 10:39                             ` Jeff Garzik
2013-10-24 11:11                             ` Christian Decker
2013-10-24 19:43                               ` Jeremy Spilman
2013-11-19 16:32 ` Wladimir
2013-11-19 16:53   ` Drak
2013-11-19 17:01     ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-11-19 17:07       ` Drak
2013-11-19 17:45       ` Wladimir
2013-11-19 17:54         ` Gregory Maxwell
2013-11-19 17:06   ` Peter Todd
     [not found]     ` <CA+s+GJA=p+yvoJqUAMQQRcfYK1B8eMVSJDWaXW8o+X5dzCXkdA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-11-19 17:21       ` [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: " Wladimir

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