Anthony Towns [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2022-10-07 📝 Original message:On Wed, Oct 05, 2022 at ...
📅 Original date posted:2022-10-07
📝 Original message: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
📝 Original message: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