From: Gary Rowe <g.rowe@froot•co.uk>
To: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 21 (modification BIP 20)
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:01:00 +0000 [thread overview]
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I think that the "send to private address" field will require more effort
to implement than the simpler "expires" and "message" fields and should be
deferred to a later BIP. There is a pressing need for expires and the only
point of contention I see is the inclusion of a dual representation (block
or timestamp).
Personally, I feel that simple is best and while a block number represents
Bitcoin's pulse, there is no guarantee that a block will be discovered at
any particular moment. From a merchant perspective the main point of the
expires field is to limit risk against currency movement (immediate cash
out) or inventory movement (time limited offer). I have difficulty seeing a
good use case that would need a block. People have been co-ordinating
events based on a UTC timestamp for decades and I think we should stick
with it.
Regarding the "version" field I again think it adds unnecessary complexity.
Pretty much everything that is needed within the Bitcoin URI scheme can be
encoded with suitable optional fields (as query params) making the whole
structure forward compatible. Having a version field seems redundant.
Finally, the URI signing mechanism. Apologies for the earlier
misunderstanding, I was reading from a limited description and it didn't
make the purpose clear. I've since used
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=58534.msg689190#msg689190 as my
reference which is a lot clearer. I think it's a good idea, and I'll
definitely support it in my MulitBit Merchant project, but it currently
seems to need more work so I think should be deferred into a dedicated BIP.
On 31 January 2012 08:35, Wladimir <laanwj@gmail•com> wrote:
>
> I also wonder whether the "send to private address" should be part of this
> BIP, or a future one.
>
> IMO (but your mileage may vary) this BIP should only define the bare-bones
> URL scheme, AND provide room for future extensions such
> as send-to-private-address, send-multiple-signers, and so on. These should
> be forwards-compatible (as Luke-Jr says) in the sense that older clients
> can detect schemes they don't understand and give the user an appropriate
> error message.
>
> Maybe we need a send-type parameter to define the scheme?
>
> Good point on the version parameter. How are clients supposed to handle
> this? Refuse to handle the request if their URL scheme parser version is
> older than in the URL? This should be in the BIP.
>
> Wladimir
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach•de
> > wrote:
>
>> Generally I prefer BIP 21 over BIP 20.
>>
>> I'm neutral on the 'send' parameter - present in both BIPs - which I
>> don't understand. I think a practical usecase should be given in the BIP.
>>
>> Also, the 'version' parameter is unclear. What does it mean? Is an oder
>> defined on versions (1.0b > 1.0)? Why is it an ";" parameter rather than
>> a normal "&" parameter?
>>
>>
>> On 01/30/2012 12:55 AM, Amir Taaki wrote:
>> > Matt Corallo posted a modification of BIP 20 in an earlier email and I
>> > asked him if he wanted to become the champion of that BIP he submitted.
>> >
>> > It is a modification of BIP 20 sans the alternative non-decimal number
>> > stuff.
>> >
>> > https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0021
>> >
>> > Right now, I will ask the GUI client implementations like MultiBit or
>> > Bitcoin-Qt, not different codebases like BitCoinJ or libbitcoin if they
>> > support BIP 20 or BIP 21. Feel free to raise any objections.
>> >
>> > More weight will be given to GUIs with actual URI sche me
>> > implementations and it's good to have a general consensus.
>> >
>> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-31 10:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 23:55 Amir Taaki
2012-01-30 9:13 ` Wladimir
2012-01-31 8:23 ` Andreas Schildbach
2012-01-31 8:35 ` Wladimir
2012-01-31 10:01 ` Gary Rowe [this message]
2012-01-31 10:22 ` Wladimir
2012-01-31 11:55 ` Andreas Schildbach
2012-01-31 12:03 ` Wladimir
2012-01-31 10:44 ` Pieter Wuille
2012-01-30 18:07 thomasV1
2012-01-30 18:44 ` Luke-Jr
2012-01-30 18:50 Gary Rowe
2012-01-30 18:56 ` Luke-Jr
2012-01-30 19:13 ` Gary Rowe
2012-01-30 19:17 ` Luke-Jr
2012-01-31 6:54 ` thomasV1
2012-01-31 13:12 ` Gavin Andresen
2012-01-31 13:20 ` Cameron Garnham
2012-01-31 10:39 [Bitcoin-development] BIP 21 (modification BIP 20)] Pieter Wuille
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