Maybe I'm new to this, but this doesn't make any sense. I thought the
point of the BIP was to collaborate to come up with a good solution.
That's exactly what I want to do before I implement it in my software.
After all, they are "Bitcoin Improvement *Proposals*." It seems like
EXACTLY what a BIP is for... just no one needs/should use it until it
removes the "draft" marking.
As for the protocol on top of it, my BIP was not intended to address
that. It's only proposing how unsigned transactions can be serialized
and users can collect addresses. Whatever system you want to implement
on top of it to exchange the data is up to the developer. My only
motivation is that if the user clicks "Save this proposal to file", that
any client can use the resulting file, just the same way we serialize
any other blockdata that has a consistent representation.
-Alan
On 11/12/2011 11:58 AM, Mike Hearn wrote:
Please don't create BIPs that don't have any actual implementation
behind them. Design discussion is fine but the mailing list works for
that.
If I were going to implement escrow transactions in BitCoinJ it would
not matter what was written here. I'd just implement the design I
thought made sense. If that design was later adopted by others it can
be documented and agreed upon in a BIP, just like a regular RFC.
For what it's worth I would not attempt to send half-valid escrow
transactions through the p2p network, not even using the overlay
networks the protocol already supports. A correct escrow protocol
requires the seller to challenge the dispute mediator with the public
key to be sure they actually own it, and the simplest way to do that
is to leverage the existing DNS/EV-SSL infrastructure with a "sign
this nonce" HTTP request.
BIPs should not be a place for people to come up with armchair
designs, because a design with no corresponding implementation is
likely to be full of problems. Let's revisit this once I can install
some software on my laptop, my server, and a friends server, and do a
3-way mediated transaction between them.
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