📅 Original date posted:2018-07-22 📝 Original message: We already have the equiv ...

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2023-06-09 12:51:11

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📅 Original date posted:2018-07-22
📝 Original message:
We already have the equiv of improvement proposals: BOLTs. Historically new
standardization documents are proposed initially as issues or PR's when
ultimately accepted. Why do we need another repo?

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 6:45 AM René Pickhardt via Lightning-dev <
lightning-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
> in the grand tradition of BIPs I propose that we also start to have our
> own LIPs (Lightning Network Improvement proposals)
>
> I think they should be placed on the github.com/lightning account in a
> repo called lips (or within the lightning rfc repo) until that will happen
> I created a draft for LIP-0001 (which is describing the process and is 95%
> influenced by BIP-0002) in my github repo:
>
> https://github.com/renepickhardt/lips (There are some open Todos and
> Questions in this LIP)
>
> The background for this Idea: I just came home from the bitcoin munich
> meetup where I held a talk examining BOLT. As I was asked to also talk
> about the future plans of the developers for BOLT 1.1 I realized while
> preparing the talk that many ideas are distributed within the community but
> it seems we don't have a central place where we collect future enhancements
> for BOLT1.1. Having this in mind I think also for the meeting in Australia
> it would be nice if already a list of LIPs would be in place so that the
> discussion can be more focused.
> potential LIPs could include:
> * Watchtowers
> * Autopilot
> * AMP
> * Splicing
> * Routing Protcols
> * Broadcasting past Routing statistics
> * eltoo
> * ...
>
> As said before I would volunteer to work on a LIP for Splicing (actually I
> already started)
>
> best Rene
>
>
> --
> https://www.rene-pickhardt.de
>
> Skype: rene.pickhardt
>
> mobile: +49 (0)176 5762 3618
> _______________________________________________
> Lightning-dev mailing list
> Lightning-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev
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