EIPs/README.md

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Ethereum Improvement Proposal. EIPs propose and describe changes made to Ethereum Protocol.

People wishing to submit EIPs first should propose their idea as an issue and then formalize it using a PR. After discussion it will be published here. Having an EIP here does not make it a formally accepted standard until its status becomes Active. For a EIP to become Active requires the mutual consent of the community. An EIP is not finalized until it has been implemented and is in use. Those proposing changes should consider that ultimately consent may rest with the consensus of the Ethereum users.

# Contributing
First review [EIP-1](EIPS/eip-1.md). Then clone the repository and add your EIP to it. There is a [template EIP here](eip-X.md). Then submit a Pull Request to Ethereum's [EIPs repository](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs).

# Current EIPS
| Number        |Title         | Author | Type  | Layer        | Status / Discussion | 
| ------------- | ------------ | ------ | ----- | -------------| ------------------- |
| [1](EIPS/eip-1.md)    | EIP Purpose and Guidelines | Martin Becze/Hudson Jameson | Meta | | Active |
| [2](EIPS/eip-2.mediawiki)    | Homestead Hard-fork Changes | Vitalik Buterin | Standard | homestead (hard-fork) | Accepted |
| [3](EIPS/eip-3.mediawiki)    | Addition of CALLDEPTH opcode | Martin Holst Swende | Standard | Consensus (hard-fork) | [Draft](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/25) |
| [4](EIPS/eip-4.mediawiki)    | EIP Classification | Joseph Chow | Meta | | Draft |
| [5](EIPS/eip-5.md)    | Gas Usage for `RETURN` and `CALL*` | Christian Reitwiessner | Standard | Consensus (hard-fork) | [Draft](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/8) |
| [6](EIPS/eip-6.md)    | Renaming Suicide Variable | Hudson Jameson | Meta |  | [Draft](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/42) |
| [7](EIPS/eip-7.md)    | DELEGATECALL | Vitalik Buterin | Standard | homestead (hard-fork) | [Accepted](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/23) |
| [8](EIPS/eip-8.md)    | devp2p Forward Compatibility Requirements for Homestead | Felix Lange | Standard | Networking | [Accepted](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/49) |
| [150](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/150)    | Gas cost changes for IO-heavy operations | Vitalik Buterin | Standard | Consensus (hard-fork) | [Accepted](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/150) |
| [155](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/155)    | Simple replay attack protection | Vitalik Buterin | Standard | Consensus (hard-fork) | [Accepted](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/155) |
| [160](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/160)    | EXP cost increase | Vitalik Buterin | Standard | Consensus (hard-fork) | [Accepted](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/160) |
| [161](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/161)    | State trie clearing (invariant-preserving alternative) | Gavin Wood | Standard | Consensus (hard-fork) | [Accepted](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/161) |
| [170](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/170)    | Contract code size limit | Vitalik Buterin | Standard | Consensus (hard-fork) | [Accepted](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/170) |