Received: from sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.193] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-1.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RaVX2-0004Lo-85 for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:48:44 +0000 Received-SPF: pass (sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com: domain of gmail.com designates 209.85.215.175 as permitted sender) client-ip=209.85.215.175; envelope-from=gavinandresen@gmail.com; helo=mail-ey0-f175.google.com; Received: from mail-ey0-f175.google.com ([209.85.215.175]) by sog-mx-3.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1RaVWw-0005pQ-Pl for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:48:44 +0000 Received: by eaal1 with SMTP id l1so2177070eaa.34 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:48:32 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.156.216 with SMTP id y24mr7903772bkw.80.1323794912508; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:48:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.229.145 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:48:31 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <1323731781.42953.YahooMailClassic@web120920.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <201112121841.39864.luke@dashjr.org> <1323736946.58149.YahooMailNeo@web121001.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:48:31 -0500 Message-ID: From: Gavin Andresen To: Walter Stanish Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Spam-Score: -1.6 (-) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. -1.5 SPF_CHECK_PASS SPF reports sender host as permitted sender for sender-domain 0.0 FREEMAIL_FROM Sender email is commonly abused enduser mail provider (gavinandresen[at]gmail.com) -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record -0.1 DKIM_VALID_AU Message has a valid DKIM or DK signature from author's domain 0.1 DKIM_SIGNED Message has a DKIM or DK signature, not necessarily valid -0.1 DKIM_VALID Message has at least one valid DKIM or DK signature X-Headers-End: 1RaVWw-0005pQ-Pl Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Fwd: [BIP 15] Aliases 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: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:48:44 -0000 RE: IIBAN numbers: Nifty! Thanks for the pointers, I think we should avoid reinventing wheels whenever possible. When composing my last response in this thread I wrote, and then erased: "There doesn't have to be one solution: I'd like to see some experimentation, with clients supporting different schemes for bitcoin address aliases, and maybe supporting plugins to extend the schemes supported (a plugin would take a string, do some behind-the-scenes-magic, and return a bitcoin address or public key)." Defining Bitcoin as an IIBAN "institution", with 36^6 "accounts", seems like a forward-thinking idea, although I'm not clear on exactly how those 2.2billion "accounts" would get allocated and mapped into bitcoin addresses. I imagine some central organization that maps IIBAN account numbers to domain names... and then clients (or plugins in the clients) query that trusted central organization and then the account holder's domain to get a (possibly unique) public key or bitcoin address. As long as IIBANs are not the ONLY way of aliasing bitcoin addresses to more-human-friendly strings I think that would be a fine way to do it. -- -- Gavin Andresen