I submitted the proposal to the mailing list on July 19, 2003.

 
On 2013-10-19, at 3:29 PM, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:

> On Saturday, October 19, 2013 9:16:24 PM Jean-Paul Kogelman wrote:
>> I have a question regarding this part. I wrote a BIP for base 58 encoding /
>> encryption of BIP 32 root keys. The BIP page states that we shouldn't add
>> to this list ourselves, but should contact you for a BIP number. I have
>> contacted you a couple times on bitcointalk for a BIP number, but haven't
>> received a response (or do those requests explicitly have to go to your
>> email address)?
> 
> See BIP 1 for the process.. proposals go to this mailing list first.
> 
> Luke