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| author | Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> | 2016-03-02 19:48:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail.com> | 2016-03-02 20:09:35 +0100 |
| commit | cd6dfb94116224d552b3cc884b3454deeeaf0ad8 (patch) | |
| tree | cdab227f82f7d3e653f61a367130881dba11e752 /bip-0009.mediawiki | |
| parent | 63d626668c01c6aaa5baadf7f80341d6eed0b090 (diff) | |
| download | bips-cd6dfb94116224d552b3cc884b3454deeeaf0ad8.tar.xz | |
Recommend a fallow pause explicitly
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/bip-0009.mediawiki b/bip-0009.mediawiki index 8a76559..ef7a2ab 100644 --- a/bip-0009.mediawiki +++ b/bip-0009.mediawiki @@ -30,9 +30,10 @@ Each soft fork deployment is specified by the following per-chain parameters (fu The starttime should be set to some date in the future, coordinates with software release date. This is to prevent triggers as a result of parties running pre-release software. The timeout should be set a reasonable time after the -starttime. A later deployment using the same bit is possible as long as its starttime is after the previous one's -timeout. This means that by setting it to 3 years after the starttime would allow around 9 deployments to be initiated -every year. +starttime. A later deployment using the same bit is possible as long as the first one its starttime is after the previous one's +timeout or activation, though it is recommended to have a pause in between to detect buggy software. + +Setting the timeout to 3 years after the starttime allows at least 9 new deployments per year. ====States==== |