Nervos Network RFCs

This repository nervosnetwork/rfcs contains proposals, standards and documentations related to Nervos Network.

The RFC (Request for Comments) process is intended to provide an open and community driven path for new protocols, improvements and best practices, so that all stakeholders can be confident about the direction of Nervos network is evolving in.

RFCs publication here does not make it formally accepted standard until its status becomes Standard.

Categories

Not all RFCs are standards, there are 2 categories:

• Standards Track - RFC that is intended to be standard followed by protocols, clients and applications in Nervos network.
• Informational - Anything related to Nervos network.

RFCs

Number	Title	Author	Category	Status
1	The Nervos Network Positioning Paper	The Nervos Team	Informational	Draft
2	Nervos CKB: A Common Knowledge Base for Crypto-Economy	Jan Xie	Informational	Draft
3	CKB-VM	Xuejie Xiao	Informational	Draft
4	CKB Block Synchronization Protocol	Ian Yang	Standards Track	Proposal
5	Privileged architecture support for CKB VM	Xuejie Xiao	Informational	Draft
6	Merkle Tree for Static Data	Ke Wang	Standards Track	Proposal
7	P2P Scoring System And Network Security	Jinyang Jiang	Standards Track	Proposal
8	Serialization	Boyu Yang	Standards Track	Proposal
9	VM Syscalls	Xuejie Xiao	Standards Track	Proposal
10	Eaglesong (Proof-of-Work Function for Nervos CKB)	Alan Szepieniec	Standards Track	Proposal
11	Transaction Filter	Quake Wang	Standards Track	Proposal
12	Node Discovery	Linfeng Qian, Jinyang Jiang	Standards Track	Proposal
13	Block Template	Dingwei Zhang	Standards Track	Proposal
14	VM Cycle Limits	Xuejie Xiao	Standards Track	Proposal
15	Crypto-Economics of the Nervos Common Knowledge Base	Kevin Wang, Jan Xie, Jiasun Li, David Zou	Informational	Draft
17	Transaction valid since	Jinyang Jiang	Standards Track	Proposal
19	Data Structures	Xuejie Xiao	Informational	Draft
20	CKB Consensus Protocol	Ren Zhang	Informational	Draft
21	CKB Address Format	Cipher Wang	Standards Track	Proposal
22	CKB Transaction Structure	Ian Yang	Informational	Draft
23	Deposit and Withdraw in Nervos DAO	Jan Xie, Xuejie Xiao, Ian Yang	Standards Track	Proposal
24	CKB System Script List	Dylan Duan	Informational	Draft
25	Simple UDT	Xuejie Xiao	Standards Track	Proposal
26	Anyone-Can-Pay Lock	Xuejie Xiao	Standards Track	Proposal

Process

The RFC process attempts to be as simple as possible at beginning and evolves with the network.

1. Discuss Your Idea with Community

Before submiting a RFC pull request to nervosnetwork/rfcs, you should proposal the idea or document to Nervos RFCs Chatroom or Nervos RFCs Mailing List.

2. Propose Your RFC

After discussion, please create a pull request to propose your RFC:

Copy 0000-template as rfcs/0000-feature-name, where feature-name is the descriptive name of the RFC. Don't assign an number yet.

Nervos RFCs should be written in English, but translated versions can be provided to help understanding. English version is the canonical version, check english version when there's ambiguity.

Nervos RFCs should follow the keyword conventions defined in RFC 2119, RFC 6919.

3. Review / Accept

The maintainers of RFCs and the community will review the PR, and you can update the RFC according to comments left in PR. When the RFC is ready and has enough supports, it will be accepted and merged into this repository nervosnetwork/rfcs.

An Informational RFC will be in Draft status once merged and published. It can be made Final by author at any time, or by RFC maintainers if there's no updates to the draft in 12 months.

4. (Standards Track) Propose Your Standard

A Standards Track RFC can be in 1 of 3 statuses:

1. Proposal (Default)
2. Standard
3. Obsolete

A Standards Track RFC will be in Proposal status intially, it can always be updated and improved by PRs. When you believe it's rigorous and mature enough after more discussions, you should create a PR to propose making it a Standard.

The maintainers of RFCs will review the proposal, ask if there's any objections, and discuss about the PR. The PR will be accepted or closed based on rough consensus in this early stage.

License

nervosnetwork/rfcs is being licensed under terms of MIT license.