This repository is for draft and implemented non-consensus-layer specifications for Ethereum-like blockchains and related projects.
We welcome and encourage Ethereum-compatible blockchain developers to contribute specifications for wider community to review. However, we don't accept consensus-layer specifications. Use EIPs or ECIPs for them.
- Shared innovation: it wastes review efforts to duplicate specifications between EIPs and ECIPs for non-consensus-layer changes. Sharing innovations across teams and blockchains can be more effective.
- Focus on standardization: Unlike BIP, EIP or ECIP process, non-consensus-layer sepcifications are less political. Arguments won't be on whether a certain technology should happen, but how it would happen.
We currently use an informal IETF-like process, following RFC 2026. Every specification has its maturity level:
- A new specification is sent in a pull request. The editor checks and
helps the author to move the specification into an acceptable
quality. After that, the specification is merged in Proposed
maturity level. In this process, the specification gets its RFC
number in the format of
ethoxy-$year-$number-$feature. - When at least one implementation is done for a particular specification, it is moved to Draft maturity level.
- When significant implementations and successful operational
experiences have been obtained, the specification is moved to
Standard maturity level. Besides its RFC number, specifications
in this maturity level also get a STD number in the format of
ethoxy-std-$number-$feature. Specifications may continue to evolve or be replaced by newer specifications.
The current editor is Wei Tang <hi@that.world>.
Technically this process also support non-standards track, but currently we assume all submitted specifications are on the standards track.
| Number | Title | Author | Maturity Level | Discussion |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-0001 | Jets in Ethereum Virtual Machine | Wei Tang | Proposed | #1 |
| 2017-0002 | Recursive Length Prefix Media Type | Wei Tang | Proposed | #2 |
| 2017-0003 | Ethereum Virtual Machine JSON-RPC | Wei Tang | Proposed | #3 |