Discussion of Guideline for advancing EIP status: A Straw-man Proposal

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Here are a few evidences that supports having some level of adoptions / (reference implementations deployed) as a criteria

@frangio wrote:

EIP-4834: Hierarchical Domains Standard

Nothing in particular, my point is rather that I think the interface should be tried “in the field” quite a bit before settling on a final specification, because that could surface issues in it. I mean things like starting to build the various applications, tooling, and libraries around it. I don’t know if that has been done in this case.

@fulldecent wrote in his article

A standard only deserves to be written if multiple people adhere to it and people depend on its surface area.