From luke at dashjr.org Sun Jul 22 18:30:21 2018 From: luke at dashjr.org (Luke Dashjr) Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2018 18:30:21 +0000 Subject: [Lightning-dev] proposal for Lightning Network improvement proposals In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <201807221830.22186.luke@dashjr.org> Lightning is covered by BIPs already. There's no need for a separate repository, and the existing BOLTs should be submitted to the BIPs repository too. On Sunday 22 July 2018 13:45:21 Ren? Pickhardt via Lightning-dev wrote: > Hey everyone, > > in the grand tradition of BIPs I propose that we also start to have our own > LIPs (Lightning Network Improvement proposals) > > I think they should be placed on the github.com/lightning account in a repo > called lips (or within the lightning rfc repo) until that will happen I > created a draft for LIP-0001 (which is describing the process and is 95% > influenced by BIP-0002) in my github repo: > > https://github.com/renepickhardt/lips (There are some open Todos and > Questions in this LIP) > > The background for this Idea: I just came home from the bitcoin munich > meetup where I held a talk examining BOLT. As I was asked to also talk > about the future plans of the developers for BOLT 1.1 I realized while > preparing the talk that many ideas are distributed within the community but > it seems we don't have a central place where we collect future enhancements > for BOLT1.1. Having this in mind I think also for the meeting in Australia > it would be nice if already a list of LIPs would be in place so that the > discussion can be more focused. > potential LIPs could include: > * Watchtowers > * Autopilot > * AMP > * Splicing > * Routing Protcols > * Broadcasting past Routing statistics > * eltoo > * ... > > As said before I would volunteer to work on a LIP for Splicing (actually I > already started) > > best Rene