Informational EIP: Author Handbook

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Let me move the discussion about criteria of publishing draft and advancing status into a separate thread because I think that’s an important issue and worthy of a focused discussion.

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

Currently in EIP-1, except of Core EIPs there is no much mentioning criteria for allowing publication of a draft EIP or advancing an EIP’s status to final. This raises concern from some EIP contributors about quality, worthiness and whether there are sufficient interest or whether sufficient level of consensus has been reached. In the interest of starting a discussion, I am creating this (probably dumb and full of flaws) proposal for criteria for advancing statuses of an EIP. Please see it as a…