From ryan at lightning.engineering Fri Dec 10 16:28:15 2021 From: ryan at lightning.engineering (Ryan Gentry) Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 10:28:15 -0600 Subject: [Lightning-dev] bLIPs are Open for Business! Message-ID: Hi all, Earlier this year, I emailed this mailing list about bitcoin Lightning Improvement Proposals (bLIPs) [1] as a way to help standardize community-driven app layer and protocol extension development. Today, I am excited to let you know that the first two bLIPs specifying the process have been merged [2] and that we are ready to start receiving proposals! Here are few example proposals I have my eyes on: Val's Keysend bLIP [3], the Sphinx team's LUMO messaging format [4], Satoshi's Stream's TLV registry [5], Lightning Node Connect [6], niftynei's accounting standardization work, some of Impervious's LN-native communications work, LND's Static Channel Backup system... and I am sure there are many more! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you're interested in writing a bLIP and want help. We're excited about getting this process going! As a reminder, a bLIP is a design document providing information to the Lightning community, or describing a new feature for the Lightning Network, and should provide a concise technical specification of the feature and a rationale for the feature. Importantly, if a feature is intended to become universal or near universal, it must be a BOLT [7]. Because of this distinction, the bLIP editors do not pass judgment on bLIPs, but only monitor bLIP changes, and update bLIP headers as appropriate. So long as you check the mailing list to ensure nobody has made a similar proposal before, fill out the required sections specified in bLIP-0001, and reserve the required feature bit, message type, or TLV in the bLIP-0002 registry, we are more than happy to merge proposals into the repo. Best, Ryan [1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2021-June/003086.html [2] https://github.com/lightning/blips [3] https://github.com/lightning/blips/pull/5 [4] https://github.com/stakwork/lumo-spec [5] https://github.com/satoshisstream/satoshis.stream/blob/main/TLV_registry.md [6] https://lightning.engineering/posts/2021-11-30-lightning-node-connect-deep-dive/ [7] https://github.com/lightning/bolts -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: