I have an objection about "BIP comments" in BIP2. I think BIPs should be self contained, but the specification recommends posting comments to the Bitcoin Wiki (bitcoin.it). I think this is a bad idea and external sources are bound to go stale over time as can be evidenced by a number of existing BIPs which link to external content that has long since expired. Comments should be made instead using the Wiki feature at bitcoin/bips itself (which can be enabled in the administration settings). 

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Luke Dashjr via bitcoin-dev <bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
It has been about 1 month since BIP 2 finished receiving comments, so I
believe it is an appropriate time to begin the process of moving it to Final
Status. Toward this end, I have opened a pull request:

    https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/350

The current requirement for this is that "the reference implementation is
complete and accepted by the community". Given the vagueness of this criteria,
I intend to move forward applying BIP 2's more specific criteria to itself:

> A process BIP may change status from Draft to Active when it achieves rough
> consensus on the mailing list. Such a proposal is said to have rough
> consensus if it has been open to discussion on the development mailing list
> for at least one month, and no person maintains any unaddressed
> substantiated objections to it. Addressed or obstructive objections may be
> ignored/overruled by general agreement that they have been sufficiently
> addressed, but clear reasoning must be given in such circumstances.

Furthermore, there is a reference implementation in the mentioned PR.

Please review the latest draft BIP and provide any objections ASAP.
If there are no outstanding objections on 2016 April 9th, I will consider the
current draft to have reached rough consensus and update its Status to Final
by merging the PR.

Thanks,

Luke
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