[Bitcoin-development] BIP 21 (modification BIP 20)

[Wladimir]

I also wonder whether the "send to private address" should be part of this
BIP, or a future one.

IMO (but your mileage may vary) this BIP should only define the bare-bones
URL scheme, AND provide room for future extensions such
as send-to-private-address, send-multiple-signers, and so on. These should
be forwards-compatible (as Luke-Jr says) in the sense that older clients
can detect schemes they don't understand and give the user an appropriate
error message.

Maybe we need a send-type parameter to define the scheme?

Good point on the version parameter. How are clients supposed to handle
this? Refuse to handle the request if their URL scheme parser version is
older than in the URL? This should be in the BIP.

Wladimir

On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Andreas Schildbach
<andreas at schildbach.de>wrote:

> Generally I prefer BIP 21 over BIP 20.
>
> I'm neutral on the 'send' parameter - present in both BIPs - which I
> don't understand. I think a practical usecase should be given in the BIP.
>
> Also, the 'version' parameter is unclear. What does it mean? Is an oder
> defined on versions (1.0b > 1.0)? Why is it an ";" parameter rather than
> a normal "&" parameter?
>
>
> On 01/30/2012 12:55 AM, Amir Taaki wrote:
> > Matt Corallo posted a modification of BIP 20 in an earlier email and I
> > asked him if he wanted to become the champion of that BIP he submitted.
> >
> > It is a modification of BIP 20 sans the alternative non-decimal number
> > stuff.
> >
> > https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0021
> >
> > Right now, I will ask the GUI client implementations like MultiBit or
> > Bitcoin-Qt, not different codebases like BitCoinJ or libbitcoin if they
> > support BIP 20 or BIP 21. Feel free to raise any objections.
> >
> > More weight will be given to GUIs with actual URI sche me
> > implementations and it's good to have a general consensus.
> >
> >
> >
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