On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 1:36 AM, Btc Drak via bitcoin-dev <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Matt Whitlock <[email protected]> > wrote: >> However, this proposal currently fails to answer a very important question: >> >> • What is the mechanism for activation of the new consensus rule? It is when >> a certain percentage of the blocks mined in a 2016-block retargeting period >> contain valid block-size votes? > > I chose not to address hard fork methodology at this stage because I > wanted to focus on the main algorithm. There are a number of options > open to us for deployment including a simple fixed activation (which I > think is feasible because there is a a lot of awareness and the > industry shows they are willing to rally around a single proposal). If > there are any strong preferences, I can add a deployment section > although I think it's less interesting until we forge a clear way > forward with what blocksize proposal to use.
Can we please not discuss an ideal deployment mechanism in 4+ different proposals and discuss the same deployment mechanism (for all proposals) in BIP99's thread instead? _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
