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From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:27:05 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP language on normative behavior
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On 2011 December 21 Wednesday, Amir Taaki wrote:

> In the original intention for BIP_0014, that would map to:
>=20
> /Gecko:20110613/Firefox:6.0a2/Mozilla:5.0/
>=20
> With something like WebKit, it becomes easy to see why that would be
> useful. You can suddenly do a network wide scan of all browsers using
> WebKit, rather than having to maintain a database of all WebKit enabled
> browsers.

This seems excellent to me.

I think most developers want to do the right thing when it comes to standar=
ds,=20
and it is only the inflexibility or ambiguity of a standard that means they=
=20
don't.

This heirarchical method lets every client supply all the information they=
=20
have -- nobody has to make a decision to leave something out.  The internal=
=20
debate they would have "is my gui version more important than my protocol=20
engine version?" is unnecessary.


Andy

=2D-=20
Dr Andy Parkins
andyparkins@gmail.com

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