[Bitcoin-development] multisig, op_eval and lock_time/sequence...
Alan Reiner
etotheipi at gmail.com
Sat Nov 12 17:25:16 UTC 2011
Fair enough. I'm not expecting anyone to just suddenly adopt BIP 0010
just because I published it to the wiki. I put it there to get feedback
on what it might be missing, and maybe we can converge on a good
preliminary solution. Then update it as we start playing with it and
find more features/fixes to add to it.
Right now, I have actually implemented BIP 0010 in my own client
software (which is still a few weeks from even having an alpha version,
but nontheless I'm actually implementing it). I'm going to use TxDPs in
offline-wallet transactions, which is a nearly identical process (it's
just a 1-of-1 transaction). As such, I will be interested to test with
some other client developers, whether they can easily use the TxDPs I
produce.
I assume it doesn't bother you if I leave it the way it is, with the
acknowledgment that I know no one is adopting it yet (except for
myself). It's informational, until we get a couple different clients,
or at least test setup to play with it.
-Alan
On 11/12/2011 12:16 PM, Mike Hearn wrote:
> BIPs are either "standards track" (affects everyone, represents
> consensus), "informational" (ie basically just summarizing the authors
> viewpoints on things) or "process".
>
> My point is you can't have a credible standards track BIP until
> something has been implemented end to end. I don't think it's a good
> plan to design these things in isolation. You'll end up with bizarre
> user experiences because of technical decisions taken months earlier
> that are now hard to reverse. A working end to end implementation
> gives you the confidence to say, yes, this is how it should work,
> because here's the demo and you can see it works very well and the
> code is clean.
>
> If your BIP is informational then no problems, but I don't think
> there's much point in informational BIPs to be honest - it's easier to
> just write an email or forum post summarizing your views on things. If
> you find it a useful framework to write your thoughts in that's OK,
> but don't expect implementors to follow what's written there just
> because it's a BIP. It carries no more weight than any other document
> would.
>
>
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