Agreed, I find measured dialog much more valuable. I also agree that standards take time and are messy, though choosing a standard allows additional participation and can drive interopability. One does not need to accept IBANN but we should participate in the dialog in its development. internet-drafts don't make it through the process unchanged. IBANN is a starting point not the end of the discussion.
-rick On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Gavin Andresen <gavinandre...@gmail.com> wrote: > First: everybody please try to focus on the issues/ideas, and try to > avoid this becoming a flame war. > > Second: I think Walter Stanish made several good points that may have > been missed in all the long posts and discussion, the main one being: > > The banking industry has been dealing with many of these issues for > years; I think we should not dismiss their experience. > > I think there is also a huge public relations benefit to using a > standard like IIBAN instead of inventing our own. Having a Bitcoin > Payment Routing Address (or whatever it ends up being called) that > looks like the number issues by big financial institutions will give > people the warm fuzzies. > > I don't really care what happens behind the scenes, as long as it is > as secure as an HTTPS connection (RE: CA pwnage: there's no such > thing as perfect security, and until a more secure solution comes > along HTTPS is the best we've got). > > And I'll reiterate that there doesn't have to be just one solution. > > My only concern is that IIBAN is Yet Another Fledgling Standard, and > those little details that remain to be worked out could take years to > actually work out. > > -- > -- > Gavin Andresen > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 > Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for > developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it > provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. > Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Windows Azure Live! Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 Microsoft is holding a special Learn Windows Azure training event for developers. It will provide a great way to learn Windows Azure and what it provides. You can attend the event by watching it streamed LIVE online. Learn more at http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-windowsazure _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
