# Specifications for Status clients

This repository will contain a list of specifications for implementing Status and its various capabilities. For examples, see http://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0000.html.

Status Improvement Proposals (SIPs).

## Accepted

No accepted SIPs right now.

## Draft

All specifications are currently in heavy draft mode. The following SIPs are under consideration for standardization.

Prepending draft with x to indicate that they aren't accepted yet.

| Num | Title |
|-----|----|
| x0   | [SIP Index (placeholder)](README.md) |
| x1   | [SIP process (placeholder)](https://github.com/status-im/specs/issues/1) |
| x2   | [SIP template (placeholder)](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119) |
| x3   | [Initial Protocol Specification](protocol.md) |
| x4   | [Initial Protocol Overview](x4.md) |
| x5   | [Initial Trust Establishment Specification](x5.md) |
| x6   | [Initial Conversational Security Specification](x6.md) |
| x7   | [Initial Transport Privacy through Whisper Specification](x7.md) |
| x8   | [Initial Message Payload Specification Specification](x8.md) |

## Incubation

Things that are being researched and might show up as SIP in the future. See [Big Brother protocol](https://github.com/status-im/bigbrother-specs/).

### Q2 (knock on wood)
- x9 upcoming: Minimal Viable Data Sync, which will provide reliable data sync between clients, only relying on best-effort delivery. More on requirements here: https://github.com/status-im/specs/. WIP: https://notes.status.im/O7Xgij1GS3uREKNtzs7Dyw#

- Whisper better bandwidth (topic partition): https://notes.status.im/aZJaio7RRYWzDcsZu_7OiQ?view

### Later
- Specific payloads for SNT use cases
- MLS
- PSS
- Mixnet
- Etc