ERC-1066: Ethereum Status Codes (ESC)

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FISSION Codes (prev “ESC”) v1.0.0-beta

Hi everyone :wave:

The past few months have been filled with interviewing around two dozen companies and projects, soliciting general feedback form the community, and exploring alternative code layouts. We had a community call earlier this week, and it’s been great to see the interest both on and beyond Ethereum :tada:

One version that seemed promising at first was adding more structure: encoding the referent plus modal & temporal logics. This turned out to be too rigid, so we fell back to using the lowest bit to signify blocking/non-blocking, which is in the current proposal.

Fun Facts

  • Now have more codes than HTTP
  • Nearly two dozen projects interviewed for research
  • Used by at at least three other ERCs (at least one more being announced by a partner soon)
  • Four FISSION presentations (so far)

Why the major version bump?

As mentioned above, we propose moving a few of the rows to make even numbers “blocking / others have control” and odds “unblocking / you have control”. If there is strong opinion that this should not be the case, it is easily undone.

What’s New?

Columns

0x1* Permission & CONTROL

This column already contained permissions. A prior working design included a column for “stoplight” style transitions. We realized that this is really a type of permission (ie: permission to proceed), and merged it into this column.

Some examples:

  • 0x10 Disallowed or STOP
  • 0x11 Allowed or GO

0x3* Negotiation & GOVERNANCE

Negotiation has been expanded to include decision making and governance, which have lot of overlap.

Some examples:

  • 0x30 Sender Disagreed or NAY
  • 0x31 Sender Agrees or YEA
  • 0x34 Quorum Not Reached

0x4* Availability & Time

Simply expanded to include new rows (see below)

Some examples:

  • 0x42 Paused
  • 0x43 Queued
  • 0x48 Already Complete

Rows

0x*4 Lower Limit

Includes items like:

  • 0x24 Underflow
  • 0x54 Insufficient Funds
  • 0xE4 Untrusted/Unsigned

0x*6 Upper Limit

Includes items like:

  • 0x16 Revoked
  • 0x26 Overflow
  • 0x46 Expired

0x*8 Unnecessary or Duplicate

Includes items like:

  • 0x28 Conflict or Duplicate Entry
  • 0x48 Duplicate Request / Already Complete
  • 0x58 Funds Not Required

Feedback?

We’d love any feedback that the community has before we make a PR against the EIPs repo :smile:

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