Nervos Network RFCs

This repository 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.

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 submitting a RFC pull request, you should send the draft to community to solicit initial feedbacks. The #rfc-chat discord channel or Nervos Talk are both good places to go.

2. Create A Pull Request

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 a number yet. Reserve a RFC number in this issue.

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.

A RFC should be put in either Informational Track or Standards Track. A RFC on Standards Track is a technical specification for software developers to facilitate an interoperable ecosystem. A RFC on Informational Track is a descriptive document providing necessary and/or helpful information to users and builders.

A RFC on Informational Track has 3 statuses:

1. Draft (initial status)
2. Withdrawn
3. Final

A RFC on Standards Track has 5 statuses:

1. Proposal (initial status)
2. Active
3. Withdrawn
4. Rejected
5. Obsolete

3. Review / Accept

The maintainers of RFCs and the community will review the PR, and you should update the RFC according to feedbacks. When a RFC is ready and get enough supports, it will be accepted and merged into this repository. The acceptance of a RFC is based on rough consensus at this early stage, we'll keep improving it as the network and ecosystem develops, until we reached the decentralized governance stage.

RFCs

Number	Title	Author	Category	Status
1	The Nervos Network Positioning Paper	The Nervos Team	Informational	Final
2	Nervos CKB: A Common Knowledge Base for Crypto-Economy	Jan Xie	Informational	Final
3	CKB-VM	Xuejie Xiao	Informational	Final
4	CKB Block Synchronization Protocol	Ian Yang	Standards Track	Proposal
5	Privileged architecture support for CKB VM	Xuejie Xiao	Informational	Withdrawn
6	Merkle Tree for Static Data	Ke Wang	Standards Track	Active
7	P2P Scoring System And Network Security	Jinyang Jiang	Standards Track	Withdrawn
8	Serialization	Boyu Yang	Standards Track	Active
9	VM Syscalls	Xuejie Xiao	Standards Track	Active
10	Eaglesong (Proof-of-Work Function for Nervos CKB)	Alan Szepieniec	Standards Track	Active
11	Transaction Filter	Quake Wang	Standards Track	Withdrawn
12	Node Discovery	Linfeng Qian, Jinyang Jiang	Standards Track	Active
13	Block Template	Dingwei Zhang	Standards Track	Active
14	VM Cycle Limits	Xuejie Xiao	Standards Track	Active
15	Crypto-Economics of the Nervos Common Knowledge Base	Kevin Wang, Jan Xie, Jiasun Li, David Zou	Informational	Final
17	Transaction Since Precondition	Jinyang Jiang, Ian Yang, Jordan Mack	Standards Track	Proposal
19	Data Structures	Xuejie Xiao	Informational	Withdrawn
20	CKB Consensus Protocol	Ren Zhang	Informational	Draft
21	CKB Address Format	Cipher Wang, Axel Wan	Standards Track	Active
22	CKB Transaction Structure	Ian Yang	Informational	Draft
23	Deposit and Withdraw in Nervos DAO	Jan Xie, Xuejie Xiao, Ian Yang	Standards Track	Active
24	CKB Genesis Script List	Dylan Duan	Informational	Final
25	Simple UDT	Xuejie Xiao	Standards Track	Proposal
26	Anyone-Can-Pay Lock	Xuejie Xiao	Standards Track	Proposal
27	CKB Block Structure	Ian Yang	Informational	Draft
37	CKB Consensus Change (Edition CKB2021)	Ian Yang	Informational	Draft
39	Cheque Lock	Dylan Duan	Standards Track	Proposal
42	Omnilock	Xu Jiandong	Standards Track	Proposal
43	CKB Softfork Activation	Dingwei Zhang	Standards Track	Proposal
44	CKB Light Client Protocol	Boyu Yang	Standards Track	Proposal
45	CKB Client Side Block Filter Protocol	Quake Wang	Standards Track	Proposal
46	CKB VM Syscalls Summary	Shan	Informational	Draft

License

This repository is being licensed under terms of MIT license.