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Do you know of any systems like BIPs, NIPs, PIPs, etc where they don't use a central repo to collect them, but rather follow a format (like that proposed by BIP3) but rely on whoever proposed a specific idea to host the repo for that idea alone?
So: a BIP is something that follows this format, not a BIP is something that is in this repo.
Well the P in this things is "proposal", so it's inherently trying to convince others, rather than just documenting something you built for yourself that others can adopt, or not
The opposite might be something like http smtp or ftp not being a proposal to tcp/ip
You can try to convince people of something whether or not the something is located in one single place or in many places.
The real test of not having a single BIP repo would be some kind of soft fork BIP, as I imagine that would be very tricky to coordinate without a single source.
But I don't think it is true that single source for each BIP has to equal same source for a BIPs.
You can convince people just by doing a thing and they see it works... Showing vs telling
Proposals skew towards telling. The BIP repo, correctly or incorrectly, is equated with Core as the default distribution
If telling the default distribution fails, thats perceived as a filter ... Committee building... which kills potential early or legitimizes bad things.
These types of things exists because people are over socialized, deferential, lack confidence, etc, the natural course of weak men creating hard times.
What if the NSA decided not to build Bitcoin after the negative responses to the paper on the mailing lists?
BIP's are the equivalent of IT telling you to create a ticket to get you to go away
It's an appeal to authority in a way too, design by committee... have others dilute your idea rather than just building the thing with conviction. Submitting a BIP is submission to the perceived authority of that repo and therefore its maintainers.
Imagine if everyone that wrote a BIP that went nowhere instead just had a fork of Core, how many forks of Core might have some traction as changes compounded and got interest?
Bad example perhaps because this costs more lost coins than anything, but seed phrases are a BIP not adopted by Core... people just built it.
An idea for a change might be really good, good enough that people try and run it... but if that same idea gets swept under the rug in the BIP repo it will discourage people from running it since they see it as a filter.
The NIP's repo in Nostr catalyzed this for me, prNIP-69 swept under the rug for arbitrary reasons of vanity, CLINK SDK however now ascendant.