[Bitcoin-development] Prenumbered BIP naming

2014-05-12 Thread Gregory Maxwell
I've noticed some folks struggling to attach labels to their yet to be numbered BIPs. I'd recommend people call them draft-main author name-what it does like draft-maxwell-coinburning in the style of pre-WG IETF drafts.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Prenumbered BIP naming

2014-05-12 Thread Matt Whitlock
On Monday, 12 May 2014, at 9:53 am, Gregory Maxwell wrote: I've noticed some folks struggling to attach labels to their yet to be numbered BIPs. I'd recommend people call them draft-main author name-what it does like draft-maxwell-coinburning in the style of pre-WG IETF drafts. Why is

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Prenumbered BIP naming

2014-05-12 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Matt Whitlock b...@mattwhitlock.name wrote: Why is there such a high bar to getting a number assigned to a BIP anyway? BIP 1 seems to suggest that getting a BIP number assigned is no big deal, but the reality seems to betray that casual notion. Even proposals