Matt Whitlock [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2015-09-01 📝 Original message:On Wednesday, 2 September ...
📅 Original date posted:2015-09-01
📝 Original message:On Wednesday, 2 September 2015, at 12:46 am, Jorge Timón wrote:
> But again, the main issue is that we don't want a central authority to
> register unique unique and memorable chain name strings.
Why not? There's a central registry of MIME types. And there's a central registry of TCP/UDP port number assignments. The BIP describing the "blockchain" URI scheme is published by a central authority. For cases where assigning names to numbers is uncontroversial, central authorities don't cause any problems.
📝 Original message:On Wednesday, 2 September 2015, at 12:46 am, Jorge Timón wrote:
> But again, the main issue is that we don't want a central authority to
> register unique unique and memorable chain name strings.
Why not? There's a central registry of MIME types. And there's a central registry of TCP/UDP port number assignments. The BIP describing the "blockchain" URI scheme is published by a central authority. For cases where assigning names to numbers is uncontroversial, central authorities don't cause any problems.