<p dir="ltr">Russ, do you have time to get started on your list? It would add value.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 30 Jul 2015 5:15 pm, Milly Bitcoin via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:<br type='attribution'><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>These are the types of things I have been discussing in relation to a <br />
process:<br />
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-A list of metrics<br />
-A Risk analysis of the baseline system. Bitcoin as it is now.<br />
-Mitigation strategies for each risk.<br />
-A set of goals.<br />
-A Road map for each goal that lists the changes or possible avenues to <br />
achieve that goal.<br />
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Proposed changes would be measured against the same metrics and a risk <br />
analysis done so it can be compared with the baseline.<br />
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For example, the block size debate would be discussed in the context of <br />
a road map related to a goal of increase scaling. One of the metrics <br />
would be a decentralization metric. (A framework for a decentralization <br />
metric is at <br />
<a href="http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/pnorris/Acrobat/stm103%20articles/Schneider_Decentralization.pdf">http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/pnorris/Acrobat/stm103%20articles/Schneider_Decentralization.pdf</a>). <br />
Cost would be one aspect of the decentralization metric.<br />
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Russ<br />
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On 7/30/2015 7:33 PM, Eric Lombrozo via bitcoin-dev wrote:<br />
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>> On Jul 30, 2015, at 5:29 AM, Gavin <gavinandresen@gmail.com<br />
>> <<a href="mailto:gavinandresen@gmail.com">mailto:gavinandresen@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br />
>><br />
>> it is hard to have a rational conversation about that when even simple<br />
>> questions like 'what is s reasonable cost to run a full node' are met<br />
>> with silence.<br />
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> Some of the risks are pretty hard to quantify. But I think this misses<br />
> the bigger point - it very well *might* be possible to safely raise this<br />
> limit or even get rid of it by first fixing some serious issues with the<br />
> protocol. But over six years into the project and these issues continue<br />
> to be all-but-ignored by most of the community (including at least a few<br />
> core developers). I don’t think it’s really a matter of whether we agree<br />
> on whether it’s good to raise the block size limit, Gavin. I think it’s<br />
> a matter of a difference in priorities.<br />
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> - Eric<br />
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