I posted a new draft of the proposal: http://blockhawk.net/bitcoin-dev/bipwiki.html The subsections still need to be fleshed out a bit more. I'd love any comments or suggestions. On Mon, Aug 24, 2015, 4:30 PM Eric Lombrozo wrote: > 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 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. >> >