Peter Todd [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2016-06-21 📝 Original message:On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at ...

📅 Original date posted:2016-06-21
📝 Original message:On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 05:33:32PM +0000, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> BIP 0070 has been a a moderate success, however, IMO:
>
> - protocol buffers are inappropriate since ease of use and extensibility is
> desired over the minor gains of efficiency in this protocol. Not too late
> to support JSON messages as the standard going forward
>
> - problematic reliance on merchant-supplied https (X509) as the sole form
> of mechant identification. alternate schemes (dnssec/netki), pgp and
> possibly keybase seem like good ideas. personally, i like keybase, since
> there is no reliance on the existing domain-name system (you can sell with
> a github id, for example)
>
> - missing an optional client supplied identification

Note that "client supplied identification" is being pushed for AML/KYC
compliance, e.g. Netki's AML/KYC compliance product:

http://www.coindesk.com/blockchain-identity-company-netki-launch-ssl-certificate-blockchain/

This is an extremely undesirable feature to be baking into standards given it's
negative impact on fungibility and privacy; we should not be adopting standards
with AML/KYC support, for much the same reasons that the W3C should not be
standardizing DRM.

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