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.
>