On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandre...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've turned the preliminary payment protocol spec into three BIPs: > > https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BIP_0070 : Network protocol / messages
I don't like the wording for payment_uri "where the payment _may_ be sent to obtain a paymentACK", or the fact that in the diagram it is the client wallet broadcasting the transaction to the network. In my opinion, it should ultimately become the responsibility of the receiver to get the transaction confirmed. Of course, the sender may help, and if the transaction does not confirm, no payment took place. But one of the advantages direct negotiation offers, is that the sender wallet does not need to remain online anymore to get the transaction broadcast. I don't think it should be even required that the sender wallet is connected to the P2P network at all. All they need to do is construct a satisfactory transaction, and send it to the merchant who cares about it. I would suggest the wording, "if a payment_uri is specified, the wallet application should try - and if necessary, retry - to submit the transaction there, resulting in a paymentACK from the merchant. Broadcasting the transaction on the P2P network is optional.". Perhaps we should even discourage broadcasting before the paymentACK is obtained, to make sure the merchant received it, together with the metadata, to decrease the chances of money arriving at a merchant without metadata (to minimize the cases where manual intervention is needed). -- Pieter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
