Received: from sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.194] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QWqec-0002yz-Fk for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:01:10 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from mail-yw0-f47.google.com ([209.85.213.47]) by sog-mx-4.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1QWqeY-0004rQ-NH for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:01:10 +0000 Received: by ywg8 with SMTP id 8so303346ywg.34 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 07:01:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.77.137 with SMTP id d9mr783546yhe.377.1308143050328; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.253.253.32] (cpe-70-124-63-160.austin.res.rr.com [70.124.63.160]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g30sm236088yhn.15.2011.06.15.06.04.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 15 Jun 2011 06:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Doug From: Doug Huff Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-2--876635183 Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:04:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: To: Bitcoin Development References: Message-Id: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Spam-Score: 1.0 (+) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. 1.0 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message X-Headers-End: 1QWqeY-0004rQ-NH Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Protocol versioning X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 14:01:10 -0000 --Apple-Mail-2--876635183 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Jun 15, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Christian Decker wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Jeff Garzik = wrote: > Here are several mini-proposals for the Satoshi Client (anyone got a > better nickname?) along these lines, which should better prepare the > bitcoin protocol for the long term: > I called it Mainline client (like the original Bittorrent client) as a = hint that this is the reference implementation everybody should refer = to, but Satoshi Client has a nice sound too :-) I propose "Reference client." Seeing as that's what it is, the original = reference implementation. --=20 Douglas Huff --Apple-Mail-2--876635183 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

On Jun 15, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Christian Decker wrote:

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti.com> wrote:
Here are several mini-proposals for the Satoshi Client (anyone got a
better nickname?) along these lines, which should better prepare the
bitcoin protocol for the long term:
I called it Mainline client (like the original Bittorrent client) as a hint that this is the reference implementation everybody should refer to, but Satoshi Client has a nice sound too :-)

I propose "Reference client." Seeing as that's what it is, the original reference implementation.

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Douglas Huff

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