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.