DCIPs/_layouts/eip.html

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  <span class="h5">
    {% if page.status == "Stagnant" %}
      <span class="badge text-light bg-danger" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-title="This EIP had no activity for at least 6 months. This EIP should not be used.">🚧 Stagnant</span>
    {% endif %}
    {% if page.status == "Withdrawn" %}
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    {% endif %}
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      <span class="badge text-light bg-warning" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-title="This EIP is not yet recommended for general use or implementation, as it is subject to normative (breaking) changes.">⚠️ {{ page.status }}</span>
    {% endif %}
    {% if page.status == "Last Call" %}
      <span class="badge text-light bg-success" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-title="This EIP is in the last call for review stage. The authors wish to finalize the EIP and ask you to provide feedback.">📢 Last Call</span>
    {% endif %}
    {% if page.category == "ERC" %}
      <a class="badge text-light bg-primary" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-title="Application-level standards and conventions, including contract standards such as token standards, name registries, URI schemes, library/package formats, and wallet formats." href="../erc">Standards Track: ERC</a>
    {% elsif page.category == "Interface" %}
      <a class="badge text-light bg-primary" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-title="Improvements around client API/RPC specifications and standards, and also certain language-level standards like method names and contract ABIs." href="../interface">Standards Track: Interface</a>
    {% elsif page.category == "Networking" %}
      <a class="badge text-light bg-primary" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-title="Improvements around devp2p and Light Ethereum Subprotocol, as well as proposed improvements to network protocol specifications of whisper and swarm." href="../networking">Standards Track: Networking</a>
    {% elsif page.category == "Core" %}
      <a class="badge text-light bg-primary" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-title="Improvements requiring a consensus fork, as well as changes that are not necessarily consensus critical but may be relevant to “core dev” discussions." href="../core">Standards Track: Core</a>
    {% elsif page.type == "Informational" %}
      <a class="badge text-light bg-primary" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-title="Describes an Ethereum design issue, or provides general guidelines or information to the Ethereum community, but does not propose a new feature. Informational EIPs do not necessarily represent Ethereum community consensus or a recommendation, so users and implementers are free to ignore Informational EIPs or follow their advice." href="../informational">Informational</a>
    {% elsif page.type == "Meta" %}
      <a class="badge text-light bg-primary" data-bs-toggle="tooltip" data-bs-title="Describes a process surrounding Ethereum or proposes a change to (or an event in) a process. " href="../meta">Meta</a>
    {% endif %}
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  <h1 class="page-heading">
    {% if page.category == "ERC" %}
      ERC-{{ page.eip | xml_escape }}: {{ page.title | xml_escape }}
    {% elsif page.category != "ERC" %}
      EIP-{{ page.eip | xml_escape }}: {{ page.title | xml_escape }}
    {% endif %}
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  <h3>{{ page.description | xml_escape }}</h3>
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        <th scope="row">Authors</th>
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        <tr>
          <th scope="row">Created</th>
          <td>{{ page.created }}</td>
        </tr>
      {% endif %}
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        <tr>
          <th scope="row">Last Call Deadline</th>
          <td>{{ page.last-call-deadline }}</td>
        </tr>
      {% endif %}
      {% if page.status != "Review" and page.status != "Last Call" and page.status != "Final" and page.discussions-to != undefined %}
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          <th scope="row">Discussion Link</th>
          <td><a href="{{ page.discussions-to | uri_escape }}" target="__blank">{{ page.discussions-to | xml_escape }}</a></td>
        </tr>
      {% endif %}
      {% if page.requires != undefined %}
        <tr>
          <th scope="row">Requires</th>
          <td>{% include eipnums.html eips=page.requires %}</td>
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  {% if page.status == "Review" or page.status == "Last Call" %}
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        <a href="{{ page.discussions-to | uri_escape }}" target="__blank">This EIP is in the process of being peer-reviewed. If you are interested in this EIP, please participate using this discussion link.</a>
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  {% endif %}

  <div class="toc">
    <h2>Table of Contents</h2>
    {% include toc.html html=content sanitize=true h_max=3 %}
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  {% include anchor_headings.html html=content anchorClass="anchor-link" beforeHeading=true %}

  <h2>Citation</h2>
  <p>Please cite this document as:</p>
  {% comment %}
  IEEE specification for reference formatting:
  https://ieee-dataport.org/sites/default/files/analysis/27/IEEE%20Citation%20Guidelines.pdf
  {% endcomment %}
  <p>{% include authorlist.html authors=page.author %}, "{% if page.category == "ERC" %}ERC{% else %}EIP{% endif %}-{{ page.eip | xml_escape }}: {{ page.title | xml_escape }}{% if page.status == "Draft" or page.status == "Stagnant" or page.status == "Withdrawn" or page.status == "Review" or page.status == "Last Call" %} [DRAFT]{% endif %}," <em>Ethereum Improvement Proposals</em>, no. {{ page.eip | xml_escape }}, {{ page.created | date: "%B %Y" }}. [Online serial]. Available: https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-{{ page.eip | xml_escape }}.</p>
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{% comment %}
Article schema specification:
https://schema.org/TechArticle
{% endcomment %}
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