On Wed, 28 Jan 2015, Nicolas DORIER wrote: > I agree that the use protocol buffer and x509 by BIP70 is a poor choice.
Well x509 is an international standard in common use, you can't do much better with regard to portability. Your suggestion about HTTPS makes little sense, you do know what TLS uses x509 internally as well? Re: protocol buffers, I don't know if it's the best possible one, but one serialization method had to be picked. If it weren't, we could still have still been discussing which one to use by now. Just like for JSON there are bindings for many languages. Though JSON parsers are much more diverse, which people using Bitcoin Core's RPC have bumped into e.g. some have some problems handling large numbers. Something you wouldn't expect using a straightforward binary format. There's no obvious best choice. Wladimir ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
