Seems like a lot of effort and goodwill is being wasted on contention over things we don't really need to agree upon. In order to help us better prioritize, I propose adding an extra attribute to BIPs indicating their "level" which is split into five as follows:

1. Consensus (hard/soft fork)
2. Peer Services
3. RPC
4. Implementations
5. Applications

I posted an example of what such a table might look like here: http://blockhawk.net/bitcoin-dev/bipwiki.html

If other folks also think this is a good idea I'll start working on a BIP draft for this.