diff --git a/eip155/caip10.md b/eip155/caip10.md index 4f37a5a..3405dc8 100644 --- a/eip155/caip10.md +++ b/eip155/caip10.md @@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ Note that a given address cannot be assumed to work on all current and future ne ## Syntax -Ethereum addresses were, historically, case-insensitive and normalized to use -all-lowercase letters (`abcdef`) like most hexadecimal numeric types. With the -ratification of [EIP-55][], however, a particular normalization of lowercase- and -uppercase- `abcdefABCDEF` characters was invented as an efficient form of -checksum. See [EIP-55][] for specification. +Ethereum addresses were, historically, case-insensitive and normalized to use all-lowercase letters (`abcdef`) like most hexadecimal numeric types. +With the ratification of [EIP-55][], however, a particular normalization of lowercase- and uppercase- `abcdefABCDEF` characters was invented as an efficient form of checksum. +Most implementations will still accept lowercase addresses but produce only checksum-case addresses, as many transaction-builders will validate not just against a regular expression but also against an EIP-55 checksum. +Anywhere ["Postel's Law"][postel] can apply, implementers SHOULD produce checksum-case secure addresses (whether in CAIP-10 or native format), and SHOULD accept both checksum case and legacy lowercase addresses, except where the security concerns of the particular usecase outweigh interoperability. +See [EIP-55][] for specification. The chain ID will be used to represent blockchain except special case of 0 as chainID to represent EOA. @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ As the Ethereum namespace evolved, user-agents that connect to dapps through an [EIP-55]: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-55 [ERC-20]: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-20 [ERC-721]: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-721 - +[postel]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc760#section-3.2 ## Rights