Ethereum Request for Comments (ERCs) and Ethereum Standards (ESDs)

[ethers]

Should we have something like ERC (Ethereum Request for Comments, like the IETF's RFC https://www.ietf.org/rfc.html) ?
Or do we want to somehow expand the notion of EIPs to include them?

The items in https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Standardized_Contract_APIs are top candidates for ERCs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Standard

Then down the line (could take a while), some ERCs could be ESDs (Ethereum Standards).

This is relevant now, since token "standards" are being discussed quite heavily:
https://gist.github.com/frozeman/090ae32041bcfe120824

[niran]

Is it correct to view the token work as an "informational" EIP? If issues outside of the core protocol were fine for BIPs, like HD wallets, I'd expect them to be fine for EIPs as well.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-1.mediawiki#eip-types

[wanderer]

@niran yeah that was the idea for "informational" EIP.

[ethers]

opportunity for someone to write the token proposal as the first informational EIP... (@frozeman ?)

[frozeman]

@wanderer if you can make me collaborator of this repo i can edit the issues (ERCs), to give them a good form, we should also add labels, and add them to the issues

[wanderer]

@ethers @frozeman I think with EIP-3 we don't need to have RFC's ESD. The process for Informational EIPs would be 1) submit an EIP 2) If it gets adopted by a Majority then change the EIPs status to "Accepted" which would be the equivalent to becoming an ESD

[ethers]

ok, Informational can be used and feel free to close this.

also, is it too late for this (rename EIP to EEP)?
https://gist.github.com/frozeman/090ae32041bcfe120824#gistcomment-1623559
EEP = Ethereum Enhancement Proposal, like Python's PEPs. EIP (like BIP) is too hard to say out loud. Maybe that ship has already sailed.

[wanderer]

@ethers yeah i think we are stuck on EIPs now plus E^i*pi = 1

[obscuren]

In my head I pronounce EIP as "eeeeeeeep"