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From: Justus Ranvier <justus.ranvier@monetas•net>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Two Proposed BIPs - Bluetooth Communication and bitcoin: URI Scheme Improvements
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:01:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5447D4F5.9060709@monetas.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANEZrP33KH1F8GrTDnTP95G1MyxZ+DXWrC6QKBrj61HXv-eg2w@mail.gmail.com>

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On 10/20/2014 12:50 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> One thing this brings up is the never-resolved issue of whether
> BIPs should document how we'd *like* things to work, or how things
> *actually do* work. BIP32 is an example of the former - it was new
> technology and the spec was finalised before any wallets actually
> implemented it. BIP 44 is an example of the latter, it basically
> documents how myTREZOR works and as such there was minimal or no
> scope for changes to it. Of course both kinds of document are
> valuable.

You also have things like BIP43 that encourage people to reserve BIP
numbers to avoid namespace collisions even if their work does not
affect any other project.

There should be an efficient process for informational BIPs of this type.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-22 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-17 19:58 Andy Schroder
2014-10-20 12:50 ` Mike Hearn
2014-10-20 15:12   ` Andy Schroder
2014-10-20 16:29     ` Mike Hearn
2014-10-22 16:01   ` Justus Ranvier [this message]
2015-02-05 23:38 ` Andy Schroder
2015-02-06  0:36   ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-06  1:40     ` Andy Schroder
2015-02-06  2:14       ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-06  8:53       ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-02-06 13:57       ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-06  8:40     ` Andreas Schildbach
2015-02-06  9:00       ` Eric Voskuil
2015-02-06 13:54         ` Mike Hearn
2015-02-06 19:06           ` Peter D. Gray

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