[Lightning-dev] proposal for Lightning Network improvement proposals

[Luke Dashjr]

Lightning is covered by BIPs already. There's no need for a separate 
repository, and the existing BOLTs should be submitted to the BIPs repository 
too.

On Sunday 22 July 2018 13:45:21 René Pickhardt via Lightning-dev 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