Add mission statement

[fulldecent]

Presently the ethereum/EIPs project does not have a mission statement.

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Recently something changed and now the majority of EIPs here have no path to become "final" standards. Pull request #1100 addresses that issue.

However, one of the EIP editors (the people with commit access here) mentioned that #1100 is not urgent. There are no remaining complaints on #1100, it has EIP editor endorsements, but it is not merged.

I reviewed the project README.md and was hoping to find something like "our goal is to discuss and pass high-quality standards reflecting established best practices in the community." So I could tell this person that #1100 is urgent (because presently, standards are prevented from passing). Alas no such line exists, in fact, there is nothing in the README.md that explains why we are contributing here.

It is much easier to set expectations for each other in this project if we have a clearly defined goal. And we should state that goal in the README.md.

[fulldecent]

Also, to be clear: EIP is ///NOT/// a governance process. It is ///NOT/// a referendum process. It is a documentation project.

[Arachnid]

Recently something changed and now the majority of EIPs here have no path to become "final" standards. Pull request #1100 addresses that issue.

Uh? What changed?

[fulldecent]

Core Devs removed themselves from ERCs. But of course that issue is resolved now. Thank you for that!

Edited.

[fulldecent]

First draft mission statement:

The goal of the EIP project is to document best practices across the Ethereum community and to document them in a high quality and implementable way.

[MicahZoltu]

I'm not a fan of that mission statement. I have argued many times in the past that EIPs are not the place to document your best practices. Use a blog, write a book, tweet about it, etc. EIPs are for standardization, when standardization is necessary. Just because you have a good idea or a good design pattern doesn't mean you need a standard.

[fulldecent]

New proposed mission statement:

The goal of the EIP project is to document standardized protocols for Ethereum clients and applications and to document them in a high quality and implementable way.

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