On 2024-01-16 16:42, Anthony Towns via bitcoin-dev wrote:
I'm switching inquisition over to having a dedicated "IANA"-ish
thing that's independent of BIP process nonsense. It's at:
* https://github.com/bitcoin-inquisition/binana
If people want to use it for bitcoin-related proposals that don't have
anything to do with inquisition, that's fine
Thank you for doing this!
Question: is there a recommended way to produce a shorter identifier for
inline use in reading material? For example, for proposal
BIN-2024-0001-000, I'm thinking:
- BIN24-1 (references whatever the current version of the proposal is)
- BIN24-1.0 (references revision 0)
I think that doesn't look too bad even if there are over 100 proposals a
year, with some of them getting into over a hundred revisions:
- BIN24-123
- BIN24-123.123
Rationale:
- Using "BIN" for both full-length and shortened versions makes it
explicit which document set we're talking about
- Eliminating the first dash losslessly saves space and reduces visual
clutter
- Shortening a four-digit year to two digits works for the next 75
years. Adding more digits as necessary after that won't produce any
ambiguity
- Although I'd like to eliminate the second dash, and it wouldn't
introduce any ambiguity in machine parsing for the next 175 years, I
think it would lead to people interpreting numbers incorrectly. E.g.,
"BIN241" would be read "BIN two-hundred fourty-one" instead of a more
desirable "BIN twenty-four dash one"
- Eliminating prefix zeroes in the proposal and revision numbers
losslessly saves space and reduces visual clutter
- A decimal point between the proposal number and revision number
creates less visual clutter than the third dash and still conveys the
intended meaning
- Overall, for the typical case I'd expect---BIN proposals numbered 1-99
with no mention of revision---this produces strings only one or two or
characters longer than a typical modern BIP number in shortened format,
e.g. BIN24-12 versus BIP123.
Thoughts?
-Dave
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