[Lightning-dev] proposal for Lightning Network improvement proposals

[Olaoluwa Osuntokun]

No need to apologize! Perhaps this confusion shows that the current process
surrounding creating/modifying/drafting BOLT documents does indeed need to
be better documented. We've more or less been rolling along with a pretty
minimal process among the various implementations which I'd say has worked
pretty well so far. However as more contributors get involved we may need
to add a bit more structure to ensure things are transparent for newcomers.

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 12:57 PM René Pickhardt <r.pickhardt at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Sorry did not realized that BOLTs are the equivalent - and aparently many
> people I spoke to also didn't realize that.
>
> I thought BOLT is the protocol specification and the bolts are just the
> sections. And the BOLT should be updated to a new version.
>
> Also I suggested that this should take place for example within the
> lightning rfc repo. So my suggestion was not about creating another place
> but more about making the process more transparent or kind of filling the
> gap that I felt was there.
>
> I am sorry for spaming mailboxes with my suggestion just because I didn't
> understand the current process.
>
>
> Olaoluwa Osuntokun <laolu32 at gmail.com> schrieb am So., 22. Juli 2018
> 20:59:
>
>> 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
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>>
> Am 22.07.2018 20:59 schrieb "Olaoluwa Osuntokun" <laolu32 at gmail.com>:
>
> 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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