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Etherum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) describe standards for the Ethereum platform, including core protocol specifications, client APIs, and contract standards. Standards Track EIPs are separated into a number of types:

  1. Core: Improvements requiring a consensus fork as well as changes that are not necessarily consensus critical but may be relevant to “core dev” discussions
  2. Networking: Includes improvements around devp2p and Light Ethereum Subprotocol, as well as proposed improvements to network protocol specifications of whisper and swarm
  3. Interface: Includes improvements around client API/RPC specifications and standards, and also certain language-level standards like method names and contract ABIs. The label “interface” aligns with the interfaces repo and discussion should primarily occur in that repository before an EIP is submitted to the EIPs repository
  4. ERC: Application-level standards and conventions, including contract standards such as token standards (ERC-20), name registries, URI schemes, library/package formats, and wallet formats 
  5. Meta: Describes a process surrounding Ethereum or proposes a change to (or an event in) a process
  6. Informational: Describes a Ethereum design issue, or provides general guidelines or information to the Ethereum community, but does not propose a new feature

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Ethereum Imporvement Proposal (EIP)

Standard and Specifications:

  • Core
  • Networking
  • Interface
  • ERC (Ethereum Request for Comment)
  • Meta & Informational (governance)

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