Re: [Bitcoin-development] Building a node crawler to map network

2011-09-06 Thread Rick Wesson
I've got minna patches for nio based on bitcoinj. I've enumerated the network a few times and am working on a DNS seed service as well as some weather reports. Happy to start a branch when the committers are ready. -rick On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Steve shadders@gmail.com wrote: Hi

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

2011-12-14 Thread Rick Wesson
I was looking at the wiki entry for this and noticed that your description of DNSSEC is incorrect. It is an internet standard and is widely deployed in the root (.), many TLDs, ccTLDs and second leverl domains. Also understand when the IETF or ICANN adopts new (we worked on DNSSEC no less than 10

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

2011-12-14 Thread Rick Wesson
understand that not *everyone* wants or will adhere to that best practice and in my NSHO it isn't. -rick 2011/12/14 Luke-Jr l...@dashjr.org: On Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:02:25 PM Rick Wesson wrote: I also am largely in favor of using secured zones to publish TXT records to digital

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

2011-12-15 Thread Rick Wesson
Why don't just... bitcoin://url.without.explicitly.specifying.provider bitcoin://alias@provider bitcoin://IIBAN@authorizedBitcoinInstitution ?? By the way, I don't like the fact that a single authorized institution needs to map the IIBANs to bitcoin addresses. The IANA is a good

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

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Payment Protocol Proposal: Invoices/Payments/Receipts

2012-11-26 Thread Rick Wesson
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Walter Stanish wal...@stani.sh wrote: X-ISO4217-A3 I see that draft-stanish-x-iso4217-a3 is not standards track, is there a reason for this? Of the three currently published proposals, all are essentially IANA registry proposals. We are currently working

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Blockchain as root CA for payment protocol

2013-02-11 Thread Rick Wesson
I prefer to leverage the signing of the (.) root in the DNS tree. The amount of effort in signing the root holds more weight than building a CA off the bitcoin blockchain. If you want to associate identifiers for payment addresses I suggest putting those in DNSSEC signed records in the DNS. For

Re: [Bitcoin-development] btc name server

2013-08-02 Thread Rick Wesson
I'd raised this topic before suggesting to leverage DNS as its kinda useful for mapping names to numbers. Expect no support. -rick On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Chris Evans aaxiomfin...@gmail.com wrote: wonder if it would be good idea to have a alias to wallet id nameserver in the client

Re: [Bitcoin-development] Monetary Authority for Bitcoin

2013-12-09 Thread Rick Wesson
+1 On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Gavin Andresen gavinandre...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Ryan Carboni ryan.jc...@gmail.comwrote: The exchanges that are kept track of could be hard coded into Bitcoin or the miner could choose, how this works is not something I'm