Hi,

Perhaps at some point consider introducing something akin to a
'Bitcoin-Draft' (BD) status with some autoexpiry period?

I understand that the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
<http://www.ietf.org>  has the concept of 'Internet Drafts" (ID)
<http://www.ietf.org/ietf-ftp/1id-guidelines.txt> and this looks like it
has worked for them so far.

m2c.

p.


On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 4:16 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Thomas Kerin <me@thomaskerin.io> wrote:
> > I used BIP0090 as a place-holder, but I would like to request a BIP
> number
> > for this now.
>
> We have had repeated problems in the past with people working on and
> circulating prior draft proposals squatting on each others numbers,
> and each demanding access to the same numbers. As a matter of
> procedure I will not assign squatted numbers, but also discussion
> should come in advance of number assignment; general subject here
> seems reasonable but many proposals are withdrawn by the party
> tendering them after further discussion shows the effort to be without
> public interest or actually subsumed by other functionality. :)
>
> Proposals should not be called "BIP[nn]" until they're actually a BIP.
>   Feel free to call it bip-kerin-multisignature or any other
> placeholder name that won't be confused with a finished BIP for
> drafting.
>
> If there is any public documentation on the process which caused you
> specific confusion, please feel free to point me at it and I'll be
> sure to fix it! Sorry for any confusion there.
>
>
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