SKIP X — Template and Instructions

Author:

<list of authors’ real names and, optionally, email addresses>

Status:

<Draft | Active | Accepted | Deferred | Rejected | Withdrawn | Final | Superseded>

Type:

<Standards Track | Process>

Created:

<date created on, in yyyy-mm-dd format>

Resolved:

<date resolved, in yyyy-mm-dd format>

Resolution:

<url> (required for Accepted | Rejected | Withdrawn)

Version effective:

<version-number> (for accepted SKIPs)

Abstract

The abstract should be a short description of what the SKIP will achieve.

Motivation and Scope

This section describes the need for the proposed change. It should describe the existing problem, who it affects, what it is trying to solve, and why. This section should explicitly address the scope of and key requirements for the proposed change.

Detailed description

This section should provide a detailed description of the proposed change. It should include examples of how the new functionality would be used, intended use-cases, and pseudocode illustrating its use.

Related Work

This section should list relevant and/or similar technologies, possibly in other libraries. It does not need to be comprehensive, just list the major examples of prior and relevant art.

Implementation

This section lists the major steps required to implement the SKIP. Where possible, it should be noted where one step is dependent on another, and which steps may be optionally omitted. Where it makes sense, each step should include a link related pull requests as the implementation progresses.

Any pull requests or developmt branches containing work on this SKIP should be linked to from here. (A SKIP does not need to be implemented in a single pull request if it makes sense to implement it in discrete phases).

Backward compatibility

This section describes the ways in which the SKIP breaks backward compatibility.

Alternatives

If there were any alternative solutions to solving the same problem, they should be discussed here, along with a justification for the chosen approach.

Discussion

This section may just be a bullet list including links to any discussions regarding the SKIP, but could also contain additional comments about that discussion:

• This includes links to discussion forum threads or relevant GitHub discussions.

References and Footnotes

All SKIPs should be declared as dedicated to the public domain with the CC0 license [1], as in Copyright, below, with attribution encouraged with CC0+BY [2].

[1] (1,2)

CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

[2] (1,2)

https://dancohen.org/2013/11/26/cc0-by/

Copyright

This document is dedicated to the public domain with the Creative Commons CC0 license [1]. Attribution to this source is encouraged where appropriate, as per CC0+BY [2].