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* Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 20 Rejected, process for BIP 21N
@ 2012-02-02 17:07 Gary Rowe
  2012-02-02 17:39 ` Matt Corallo
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From: Gary Rowe @ 2012-02-02 17:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Bitcoin Development List

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BlueMatt, did the BIP0021 Wiki entry for "req:" to "req-" get updated? I'm
looking there now and it seems to be still at "req:"

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* [Bitcoin-development] BIP 20 Rejected, process for BIP 21N
@ 2012-01-31 14:27 Amir Taaki
  2012-01-31 14:33 ` slush
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 21+ messages in thread
From: Amir Taaki @ 2012-01-31 14:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: bitcoin-development

BIP 20 really has no support among implementations such as Bitcoin-Qt, Electrum, MultiBit or Bitcoin-JS. As the most active and visible user facing GUI projects (all with some form of URI Scheme), their opinion carries the most weight. To a lesser degree Bitcoin-Qt has the large majority of users too (although that's a line of reasoning I'd discourage).

Normally we should probably Reject BIP 21 and re-submit a new standard (for history's sake), but as a) BIP 21 is largely a copy paste of BIP 20 sans some sections b) it is still a draft, probably the best thing here is if you all agree on something to run it by BlueMatt and then we'll make it the new BIP 21.

I can see a consensus forming on most parts. Just the send private key is contentious, and there's the topic of adding a time to expire field for merchants (this is a very good idea IMO).

Also BIP 20 is problematic because it is incompatible with about every standard on the web. All the HTML, URI and everything uses decimal numbers alone. I see no reason for breaking with tradition. Note that everytime I have to write Color or Vectorize (as a British speaker) in my code, I die a little inside. But it's convention and American English = International English. Also it would be cool if all code used a *real* international language (like Esperanto) but the world ain't perfect! We live in a decimal-counting English-speaking Windows-using God-worshipping world!

(no offense to decimal-counting English-speaking Windows-using God-worshipping world- I do half those things too :)



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2012-01-31 15:02       ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-01-31 15:04         ` Gary Rowe
2012-01-31 14:59   ` Gregory Maxwell
2012-01-31 16:04 ` Matt Corallo
2012-01-31 18:22   ` Matt Corallo
2012-01-31 19:02     ` Wladimir
2012-01-31 21:42       ` Matt Corallo
2012-01-31 22:14     ` Andreas Schildbach
2012-01-31 22:37       ` Gary Rowe
2012-01-31 22:47         ` Matt Corallo
2012-02-04 14:03     ` thomasV1
2012-02-04 16:03       ` Gary Rowe
2012-02-04 17:15         ` Matt Corallo
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