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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2015 01:37:05 +0200
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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Splitting BIPs
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Concept ACK. As suggested in the other thread, maybe it is worth to
start a new BIP draft for this?


On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:51 PM, Eric Lombrozo via bitcoin-dev
<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> I posted a new draft of the proposal:
> http://blockhawk.net/bitcoin-dev/bipwiki.html
>
> The subsections still need to be fleshed out a bit more. I'd love any
> comments or suggestions.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015, 4:30 PM Eric Lombrozo <elombrozo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Also, the current "type" attribute needs modification. There are different
>> degrees of "standard". Just because a lot of people do X doesn't need to
>> mean that doing X is "officially" endorsed by any other devs. At most levels
>> below 1, disagreements might be entirely tolerable for many things.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015, 2:06 PM Eric Lombrozo <elombrozo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Seems like a lot of effort and goodwill is being wasted on contention
>>> over things we don't really need to agree upon. In order to help us better
>>> prioritize, I propose adding an extra attribute to BIPs indicating their
>>> "level" which is split into five as follows:
>>>
>>> 1. Consensus (hard/soft fork)
>>> 2. Peer Services
>>> 3. RPC
>>> 4. Implementations
>>> 5. Applications
>>>
>>> I posted an example of what such a table might look like here:
>>> http://blockhawk.net/bitcoin-dev/bipwiki.html
>>>
>>> If other folks also think this is a good idea I'll start working on a BIP
>>> draft for this.
>
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