Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-16 Thread Andy Parkins
On 2011 December 16 Friday, Rick Wesson wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 4:07 PM, slush sl...@centrum.cz wrote: I really like this proposal with standard URLs. All other proposals like DNS mapping or email aliases converted to URLs with some weird logic looks strange to me. wow, really.

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-16 Thread Andy Parkins
On 2011 December 16 Friday, Rick Wesson wrote: I believe that any URI scheme will still leverage DNS and inherit any base issues you would have with TXT records. I suggest looking at DANE HTTPS takes care of that. and reviewing their work on hardening certificate (x.509) infrastructure as

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-16 Thread Harald Schilly
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 21:10, Amir Taaki zgen...@yahoo.com wrote: Especially when we already have bitcoin addresses with their own checksums- what value do IBANs add? Well, I'm not an expert like you, but one benefit would be to be compatible with existing software solutions that are based on

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-16 Thread Andy Parkins
On Friday 16 Dec 2011 19:06:52 Gavin Andresen wrote: I think there is also a huge public relations benefit to using a standard like IIBAN instead of inventing our own. Having a Bitcoin Payment Routing Address (or whatever it ends up being called) that looks like the number issues by big

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-16 Thread Rick Wesson
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Andy Parkins andypark...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] You've been unfair, the equivalent of your u...@authority.tld is https://authority.tld/user; or https://user.authority.tld/; or https://google.com/bitcoin/user; or any of an infinite number of other

Re: [Bitcoin-development] [BIP 15] Aliases

2011-12-16 Thread Rick Wesson
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Khalahan k...@dot-bit.org wrote: The number of proposals is not infinite, here are their problems : - FirstBits : centralized - DNS TXT Records : DNSSEC is required to have a minimum of security, limits usage to engineers, limits usage to some domain names (i

[Bitcoin-development] Pubkey addresses

2011-12-16 Thread Luke-Jr
IMO, we should standardize and support public key addresses. While not ideal for humans, because of their length, it's a better fit for large QR Codes IMO. -- Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is