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Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:27:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [Bitcoin-development] BIP 20 Rejected, process for BIP 21N
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Reply-To: Amir Taaki <zgenjix@yahoo.com>

BIP 20 really has no support among implementations such as Bitcoin-Qt, Elec=
trum, MultiBit or Bitcoin-JS. As the most active and visible user facing GU=
I projects (all with some form of URI Scheme), their opinion carries the mo=
st weight. To a lesser degree Bitcoin-Qt has the large majority of users to=
o (although that's a line of reasoning I'd discourage).=0A=0ANormally we sh=
ould probably Reject BIP 21 and re-submit a new standard (for history's sak=
e), but as a) BIP 21 is largely a copy paste of BIP 20 sans some sections b=
) it is still a draft, probably the best thing here is if you all agree on =
something to run it by BlueMatt and then we'll make it the new BIP 21.=0A=
=0AI can see a consensus forming on most parts. Just the send private key i=
s contentious, and there's the topic of adding a time to expire field for m=
erchants (this is a very good idea IMO).=0A=0AAlso BIP 20 is problematic be=
cause it is incompatible with about every standard on the web. All the HTML=
, URI and everything uses decimal numbers alone. I see no reason for breaki=
ng with tradition. Note that everytime I have to write Color or Vectorize (=
as a British speaker) in my code, I die a little inside. But it's conventio=
n and American English =3D International English. Also it would be cool if =
all code used a *real* international language (like Esperanto) but the worl=
d ain't perfect! We live in a decimal-counting English-speaking Windows-usi=
ng God-worshipping world!=0A=0A(no offense to=A0decimal-counting English-sp=
eaking Windows-using God-worshipping world- I do half those things too :)