BIP40: Stratum wire protocol

[ben221199]

The Stratum wire protocol has a long history since @slush0 introduced it. However, the protocol never got standardized in a formal way, so many implementations have been based on incomplete documents or on other implementations. With this document I finally want to give Stratum its place between the other BIPs, so that developers can just read this document and don't have to search through years of code or dead pages that need to be revived with Wayback Machine.

[ben221199]

Yesterday, I sent two registration requests to IANA to get some information officially egistered. The registries are:

• Media Types (https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml)
• WebSocket Subprotocol Name Registry (https://www.iana.org/assignments/websocket/websocket.xml#subprotocol-name)

Today, I got a response that for both registrations some things have to be done first, before IANA can add these records to their registry. In case of the Media Types, this is process is a little bit more difficult. For the WebSocket Subprotocol Name Registry it is just letting them know when this pull request is merged and I have a permalink to the specification.

Also, it is possible that I will send more registration requests for other IANA registries too. For example, the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry (https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml) is a possible candidate. In that case, I will post new comments about that too.

[jonatack]

Some editorial feedback.

[jonatack]

This BIP refers to BIP41, The Stratum mining protocol, for which a BIP number was assigned and an entry exists in the README, but there doesn't seem to be pull request to add the BIP draft -- any update on that?

[ben221199]

Hi @jonatack, thank you for feedback. I will take a look at it. I didn't have time to work on BIP 40 lately. Yes, both BIP 40 and BIP 41 are already assigned by the README and BIP 41 is also mentioned in this BIP 40. The goal is to finish BIP 40 (Stratum wire protocol) first and then start working on BIP 41 (Stratum mining protocol), referring back to BIP 40, because the mining protocol is based on the wire protocol.

[ben221199]

The media type application/stratum has been registered by IANA at Media Types (https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml).

[jonatack]

Thanks for updating. Took a look at the new additions.

[jonatack]

@ben221199 This draft might be missing the following:

- [ ] Backwards compatibility section describing incompatibilities, severity, and suggest mitigations
- [ ] Reference implementation (necessary before status "Final", but not necessary to be accepted)

[ben221199]

Where should I place that?

[jonatack]

Where should I place that?

They are generally the last two sections in other BIPs.