On 2013-10-21, at 2:44 AM, Arto Bendiken <arto@bendiken.net> wrote:

> 
> Indeed. The BIP analogs that immediately come to mind would be the
> enhancement proposal processes for Python, XMPP, and BitTorrent:

Bitcoin's BIP process is directly based off of Python's PEP process. 

Quote from BIP 1, History:

This document was derived heavily from Python's PEP-0001. In many places text was simply copied and modified.