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Mastering Ethereum
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Mastering Ethereum

by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Gavin Wood
December 2018
Intermediate to advanced
422 pages
11h 8m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Appendix B. Ethereum Standards

Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs)

The Ethereum Improvement Proposal repository is located at https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/. The workflow is illustrated in Figure B-1.

From EIP-1:

EIP stands for Ethereum Improvement Proposal. An EIP is a design document providing information to the Ethereum community, or describing a new feature for Ethereum or its processes or environment. The EIP should provide a concise technical specification of the feature and a rationale for the feature. The EIP author is responsible for building consensus within the community and documenting dissenting opinions.

Ethereum Improvement Proposal Workflow
Figure B-1. Ethereum Improvement Proposal workflow

Table of Most Important EIPs and ERCs

Table B-1. Important EIPs and ERCs
EIP/ERC # Title/Description Author Layer Status Created

EIP-1

EIP Purpose and Guidelines

Martin Becze, Hudson Jameson

Meta

Final

EIP-2

Homestead Hard-fork Changes

Vitalik Buterin

Core

Final

EIP-5

Gas Usage for RETURN and CALL*

Christian Reitwiessner

Core

Draft

EIP-6

Renaming SUICIDE Opcode

Hudson Jameson

Interface

Final

EIP-7

DELEGATECALL

Vitalik Buterin

Core

Final

EIP-8

devp2p Forward Compatibility Requirements for Homestead

Felix Lange

Networking

Final

EIP-20

ERC-20 Token Standard. Describes standard functions a token contract may implement to allow DApps and wallets to handle tokens across multiple interfaces/DApps. ...

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