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    It would be nice to decouple the venue, but even BIP 1 gives that
    control to whoever controls the mailing list: "Following a
    discussion, the proposal should be sent to the bitcoin-dev list and
    the BIP editor with the draft BIP." (BIP 1)<br>
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    A neater way to do it might be to replace references to the mailing
    list with "public discussion medium" where "medium" can be defined
    as something like any discussion forum frequented by the wider
    development community, like the pull requests section of the BIP
    repo, conferences, etc.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/02/16 15:58, Gavin Andresen via
      bitcoin-dev wrote:<br>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Luke
            Dashjr via bitcoin-dev <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a
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                href="mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org"
                target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a></a>&gt;</span>
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0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I've
              completed an initial draft of a BIP that provides
              clarifications on the<br>
              Status field for BIPs, as well as adding the ability for
              public comments on<br>
              them, and expanding the list of allowable BIP licenses.<br>
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href="https://github.com/luke-jr/bips/blob/bip-biprevised/bip-biprevised.mediawiki"
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              I plan to open discussion of making this BIP an Active
              status (along with BIP<br>
              123) a month after initial revisions have completed.
              Please provide any<br>
              objections now, so I can try to address them now and
              enable consensus to be<br>
              reached.<br>
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          <div>I like the more concrete definitions of the various
            statuses.</div>
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          <div>I don't like the definition of "consensus".  I think the
            definition described gives too much centralized control to
            whoever controls the mailing list and the wiki.</div>
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                  <div>--<br>
                    Gavin Andresen<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev">https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev</a>
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