> > Why would there be an iteration count? The payer would handle that, > wouldn't they? > I'm thinking about a use case I hope will become common next year - pastebin style hosting sites for payment requests. Like, if I as a regular end user wish to use the payment protocol, I could just upload a (possibly signed) payment request to: payr.com/a62gahZ or whatever, and then payr.com can take care of incrementing the iteration count on each download of my file. That's why it's useful for it to be unsigned. > If the use case is: I give the Foundation a "here's where to pay my > salary" PaymentRequest, maybe with several Outputs each having a different > xpubkey, then it seems to me the Foundation's wallet software should take > care of iterating. > Absolutely. The two use cases can both be supported. You could give iteration ranges, for instance, if you want to specify expiry in terms of number of payments rather than time.