24-ECIPURI

Overview

This specification proposes a solution for a decentralized Ethereum Classic Improvement Proposal via federation, while preserving the current proposal structures and allowing easy aggregator setup. New repositories can be easily added into the federation without permissions, and be picked up by existing aggregators. Each URI also has a single source of truth associated with it, via a well known address query.

URI

An URI for an improvement proposal is a normal Uniform Resource Identifier, where the scheme can be omitted. For example, the URI for this specification is ecips.that.world/24-ECIPURI.

Registry

The domain part of the specification URI acts as the specification's registry. Note that the specification author can easily change registry by simply registering at a new registry.

Authoritative Specifications

The actual document for the specification can be hosted on a server, on a git repository, or on IPFS. When presented with a specification URI, the client can query a well-known location .well-known/ecips/specs.json (for example https://ecips.that.world/.well-known/ecips/specs.json) to get all specifications presented in the registry, and understand the URI's authoritativeness. A request to .well-known/ecips/specs.json is expected to return a JSON array, where each item is a JSON object containing the following fields:

• uri: The URI for the specification
• documentUrl: The location of the authoritative source for the specification.
• discussionUrl: The location of discussion for the specification.
• status: A status description for the specification.
• author: Contact of the author for the specification.
• createdAt: Date when the specification was created.

Aggregation

Each registry can also optionally provide information of other registry it knows about. This is done by the well known location .well-known/ecips/known.json. A request to .well-known/ecips/known.json is expected to return a JSON array, where each item is a string pointing to other known registries.

An ECIP aggregator can use this well known location to build up the complete list of known registries, and then query each registry for specifications.