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From: Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
To: Kevin Greene <kgreenek@gmail•com>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>,
	Andreas Schildbach <andreas@schildbach•de>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP70: PaymentACK semantics
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 23:17:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPg+sBgUNYqYm7d4Rv+f0rBa=nSuqwmZ6_REBS7M-+Wea+za0g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEY8wq4QEO1rtaNdjHXR6-b3Cgi7pfSWk7M8khVi0MHCiVOBzQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:03 PM, Kevin Greene <kgreenek@gmail•com> wrote:
> +1 for an error field.

Agree, I think we need a way for client applications to interpret the response.

> Should the wallet broadcast the transaction to the bitcoin network when it
> receives an ACK, or always assume that the merchant server will do that?

In my opinion, that should be the primary meaning of receiving an ACK:
acknowledgement that the receiver takes responsibility for getting the
transaction confirmed (to the extent possible, of course).


-- 
Pieter



  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-27 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-26 21:56 Andreas Schildbach
2014-01-27 14:54 ` Gavin Andresen
2014-01-27 15:20   ` Andreas Schildbach
2014-01-27 15:52   ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-27 22:03     ` Kevin Greene
2014-01-27 22:17       ` Pieter Wuille [this message]
2014-01-27 22:39         ` Kevin Greene
2014-01-28 11:42           ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-28 12:53             ` Gavin Andresen
2014-01-28 13:09               ` Pieter Wuille
2014-01-28 13:24               ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-28 17:23               ` Peter Todd
2014-01-28 17:33                 ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-28 21:12                   ` Peter Todd
2014-01-30 14:51         ` Jeff Garzik
2014-01-30 14:58           ` Pieter Wuille
2014-01-30 15:01           ` Mike Hearn
2014-01-30 15:06           ` Gavin Andresen
2014-01-30 15:16             ` Pieter Wuille
2014-01-30 20:16               ` Jeremy Spilman
2014-01-31  4:16                 ` Chuck
2014-01-31 16:21                   ` Christophe Biocca

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