{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"npub1fx98zxt3lzspjs5f4msr0fxysx5euucm29ghysryju7vpc9j0jzqtcl2d8","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1fx98zxt3lzspjs5f4msr0fxysx5euucm29ghysryju7vpc9j0jzqtcl2d8","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"📅 Original date posted:2015-07-31\n📝 Original message:On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 2:15 AM, Milly Bitcoin via bitcoin-dev\n\u003cbitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org\u003e wrote:\n\u003e These are the types of things I have been discussing in relation to a\n\u003e process:\n\u003e\n\u003e -A list of metrics\n\u003e -A Risk analysis of the baseline system.  Bitcoin as it is now.\n\u003e -Mitigation strategies for each risk.\n\u003e -A set of goals.\n\u003e -A Road map for each goal that lists the changes or possible avenues to\n\u003e achieve that goal.\n\u003e\n\u003e Proposed changes would be measured against the same metrics and a risk\n\u003e analysis done so it can be compared with the baseline.\n\u003e\n\u003e For example, the block size debate would be discussed in the context of a\n\u003e road map related to a goal of increase scaling.  One of the metrics would be\n\u003e a decentralization metric.  (A framework for a decentralization metric is at\n\u003e http://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/pnorris/Acrobat/stm103%20articles/Schneider_Decentralization.pdf).\n\u003e Cost would be one aspect of the decentralization metric.\n\nAll this sounds very reasonable and useful.\nAnd if a formal organization owns this \"process\", that's fine as well.\nI still think hardforks need to be uncontroversial (using the vague \"I\nwill know it when I see it\" defintion) and no individual or\norganization can be an \"ultimate decider\" or otherwise Bitcoin losses\nall it's p2p nature (and this seems the point where you, Milly, and I\ndisagree).\nBut metrics and data tend to help when it comes to \"I will know it\nwhen I see it\" and \"evidences\".\nSo, yes, by all means, let's have an imperfect decentralization metric\nrather than not having anything to compare proposals. Competing\ndecentralization metrics can appear later: we need a first one first.\nI would add that we should have sets of simulations being used to\ncalculate some of those metrics, but maybe I'm just going too deep\ninto details."}