Network version increase

3 messages, 2 Apr 2012. Started by Pieter Wuille.

Pieter Wuille, Jeff Garzik, Wladimir J. van der Laan

Pieter Wuille 2 Apr 2012, 15:23 UTC permalink original

Hello all,

Mike Hearn has submitted a pull request to add a pong message in reply to a ping.

This warrants an upgrade of the network protocol version number, which is since BIP14 independent from the version numbers of the reference client.

Any opinions about a numbering scheme? Currently the value 60000 is used. We could simply start increasing the number one by one now for every change, or we could do a "cleanup" to 100000 first, and start incrementing from there.

Jeff Garzik 2 Apr 2012, 16:32 UTC in reply to Pieter Wuille permalink original

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com> wrote:

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> Any opinions about a numbering scheme? Currently the value 60000 is used. We could
> simply start increasing the number one by one now for every change, or we could
> do a "cleanup" to 100000 first, and start incrementing from there.

It would be nice to have 100000 as the baseline, "frozen" protocol.

Wladimir J. van der Laan 2 Apr 2012, 16:42 UTC in reply to Jeff Garzik permalink original

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti•com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com>
> wrote:
> > Any opinions about a numbering scheme? Currently the value 60000 is
> used. We could
> > simply start increasing the number one by one now for every change, or
> we could
> > do a "cleanup" to 100000 first, and start incrementing from there.
>
>
> It would be nice to have 100000 as the baseline, "frozen" protocol.
>

Yes, I think increasing with one is enough for now. Let's not get ahead of ourselves :)

Wladimir