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.

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)
x1	SIP process (placeholder)
x2	SIP template (placeholder)
x3	Initial Protocol Specification
x4	Initial Protocol Overview
x5	Initial Trust Establishment Specification
x6	Initial Conversational Security Specification
x7	Initial Transport Privacy through Whisper Specification
x8	Initial Message Payload Specification Specification

Things that are being researched and might show up as SIP in the future. See Big Brother protocol.

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