If we were to go with bitcoin:[address1]?option2=[address2]&option3=[address3]
then there’s an argument to be made that the order of preference should be address2
, address3
, address1
(i.e. address1
is always last) because address1
is necessarily going to be the least modern and most backwards compatible address format, and thus likely least desirable.
Similarly, an updated BIP21 should address the question of which address has priority when off-chain addresses have their own custom parameters. E.g. if we take bitcoin:[address1]?option2=[address2]&b12=[b12_address]
how do you signify that b12_address
takes precedence? You could put it before address2
but now you’ve introduced order dependence at the URI level.
Perhaps this is an argument for not making the distinction between on-chain and off-chain addresses, but we’d still need to support the old parameters for backwards compatibility reasons so we’d probably still need to come up with some kind of deterministic order of preference.