Also, the current "type" attribute needs modification. There are different degrees of "standard". Just because a lot of people do X doesn't need to mean that doing X is "officially" endorsed by any other devs. At most levels below 1, disagreements might be entirely tolerable for many things.

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015, 2:06 PM Eric Lombrozo <elombrozo@gmail.com> wrote:

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.