Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

2013-10-22 Thread Martin Sustrik
On 21/10/13 21:47, Luke-Jr wrote: On Monday, October 21, 2013 7:38:37 PM Jean-Paul Kogelman wrote: 1) Should the protocol specification page also be codified into BIP(s)? Probably wouldn't hurt, but it'd likely need a rewrite in a more modular and formal form. I wanted to have a look at how

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

2013-10-22 Thread Jean-Paul Kogelman
I wanted to have a look at how the whole Bitcoin thing works recently. Being a distributed application, I've searched for the protocol spec. What I found were two wiki pages (Protocol ProtocolRules) that looked more like notes someone wrote down while implementing the application. Have

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

2013-10-22 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman jeanpaulkogel...@me.com wrote: Have you seen: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification ? Take care, the information in the wiki is woefully incomplete. --

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

2013-10-22 Thread Martin Sustrik
On 22/10/13 09:03, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman jeanpaulkogel...@me.com wrote: Have you seen: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification ? Take care, the information in the wiki is woefully incomplete. Imagine myself, with no prior

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

2013-10-22 Thread Peter Todd
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 09:34:57AM +0200, Martin Sustrik wrote: On 22/10/13 09:03, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Jean-Paul Kogelman jeanpaulkogel...@me.com wrote: Have you seen: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_specification ? Take care, the information in

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

2013-10-22 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Martin Sustrik sust...@250bpm.com wrote: There's also Security Considerations part in every RFC that is pretty relevant for Bitcoin. Which would say something interesting like If the bitcoin network implements inconsistent behavior in the consensus critical

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

2013-10-22 Thread Martin Sustrik
On 22/10/13 09:56, Gregory Maxwell wrote: On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Martin Sustrik sust...@250bpm.com wrote: There's also Security Considerations part in every RFC that is pretty relevant for Bitcoin. Which would say something interesting like If the bitcoin network implements

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Revisiting the BIPS process, a proposal

2013-10-22 Thread Jeff Garzik
All that is good practice, but we should avoid adding burdensome process that might discourage BIP writing. Consider a distributed approach: if you feel a draft needs more sections or better language, submit a pull request yourself and help community-edit the document. On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at

Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP39 word list

2013-10-22 Thread slush
I think this is a good idea; I just pushed new unit test test_similarity() to github which finds such similar words. Right now it identifies ~90 similar pairs in current wordlist, I'll update wordlist tomorrow to pass this test. slush On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 1:52 AM, jan jan.mare...@gmail.com