On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 06:27 -0800, Amir Taaki wrote: > BIP 20 really has no support among implementations such as Bitcoin-Qt, > Electrum, MultiBit or Bitcoin-JS. As the most active and visible user facing > GUI projects (all with some form of URI Scheme), their opinion carries the > most weight. To a lesser degree Bitcoin-Qt has the large majority of users > too (although that's a line of reasoning I'd discourage). > > Normally we should probably Reject BIP 21 and re-submit a new standard (for > history's sake), but as a) BIP 21 is largely a copy paste of BIP 20 sans some > sections b) it is still a draft, probably the best thing here is if you all > agree on something to run it by BlueMatt and then we'll make it the new BIP > 21. > > I can see a consensus forming on most parts. Just the send private key is > contentious, and there's the topic of adding a time to expire field for > merchants (this is a very good idea IMO). > > Also BIP 20 is problematic because it is incompatible with about every > standard on the web. All the HTML, URI and everything uses decimal numbers > alone. I see no reason for breaking with tradition. Note that everytime I > have to write Color or Vectorize (as a British speaker) in my code, I die a > little inside. But it's convention and American English = International > English. Also it would be cool if all code used a *real* international > language (like Esperanto) but the world ain't perfect! We live in a > decimal-counting English-speaking Windows-using God-worshipping world! > > (no offense to decimal-counting English-speaking Windows-using > God-worshipping world- I do half those things too :)
The send crap was not in the original spec, is not implemented anywhere, and should have been removed as part of the BIP 21 copy/paste. It is now gone. As for the expire time, well thats a bit problematic IMHO. Technically BIP 21 is still a draft, but it is implemented in all versions of Bitcoin-Qt for drag and drop and adding a field which restricts the validity of a URI for new clients, but which old clients will gladly accept could result in some ugly situations IMO. Matt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
