On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at 09:32:29PM -0700, Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Protocol cannot be defined on an ad-hoc basis as a "courtesy"
BIPs are a courtesy in the first place. There's no central authority to enforce some particular way of doing things. > - and it's not exactly a courtesy to keep yourself from getting dropped by > peers. It is not clear to me why such a comment would be accepted instead of > specifying this properly. If you think that the version restriction should be part of the BIP, why not do a pull request? The BIP is still marked as "Draft". > I doubt that anyone who's worked with it is terribly fond of Bitcoin's P2P > protocol versioning. I've spent some time on a proposal to update it, though > it hasn't been a priority. If anyone is interested in collaborating on it > please contact me directly. Bottlenecking a proposal on someone who doesn't see it as a priority doesn't seem smart? Here's what I think makes sense: https://github.com/ajtowns/bips/blob/202210-p2pfeatures/bip-p2pfeatures.mediawiki Cheers, aj _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
