On Monday, June 29, 2015 5:43:13 AM Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 5:40 AM, Luke Dashjr <[email protected]> wrote: > > Policy is node/miner fiat and not the domain of BIPs. > > Even accepting the premise that policy is pure local fiat, the > conclusion doesn't follow for me. BIPs about best practices or > especially anything where interop or coordination are, I think, > reasonable uses of the process. > > E.g. you might want to know what other kinds of policy are in use if > you're to have any hope of authoring transactions that work at all!
Then we are to start issuing a new BIP for every node's policy? This has no end - though it might make sense for an independent and updated database. Mixing protocol standards with policy suggestions makes a very risky situation where one can potentially hold a miner liable for not enforcing the BIP; ie, government regulation of Bitcoin itself. I don't think most people want to go there... Luke _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
