User talk:4thmadhatter

Hello. There has been some contention over the correct title of the payments protocol, apparently due to a lack of a reliable and legitimate source.

I would humbly argue that the developers' documentation on the protocol is itself surely the most bona fide origin of information. -- https://developers.ripple.com/xrp-ledger-overview.html

To me, it is pretty clear that the payments protocol is now enrobed in the term 'XRP Ledger'. Previous documents (pre-2017) refer to the RCP (Ripple Consensus Protocol), but everything onwards and it is denoted the XRP Ledger. This dev portal linked above is regularly updated & can be safely assumed to contain the most relevant information (vs docs released in 2014, for example). I'll point out a few key excerpts from the above to illustrate why it's evident that Ripple is solely the company with chief responsibility over the protocol (at the current time), and that the name 'Ripple' for the protocol is antiquated:

"...the XRP Ledger also has a fully-functional accounting system for tracking and trading obligations denominated in any way users want, and an exchange built into the protocol."

"The XRP Ledger is a universal payment system..."

"Unlike other digital currency protocols,the XRP Ledger also allows users to..."

The last quote in particular indicates that the very people who built the system themselves now refer to the protocol as the XRP Ledger and not the 'Ripple payment protocol' or RCP. Not once in the documentation was the word 'Ripple' used to refer to anything other than the company. And the absence of any recent documentation or dev portal for anything by the name of Ripple Payment Protocol or RCP in itself speaks volumes. So, to me, it is clear as day what the name is - while RCP may have been the name once, it is not anymore.