Deprecate ERC 1123

[njgheorghita]

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• Trying to change EIP 1123 state from Draft to Abandoned

[MicahZoltu]

Deprecated isn't a valid EIP status. You can either mark this as abandoned if you no longer wish to pursue it, or you can push it through to Final. Currently there is a Superceded status that can be set after Final, but the editors are currently talking about getting rid of that.

In the future, I recommend pushing EIPs to final when they are done as soon as possible, rather than leaving them as DRAFT indefinitely.

[axic]

This field should have a dash and not a space.

[axic]

Maybe these rules are archaic and would benefit from a thorough review, but this is what it is today:

1. Only a Final standard can be superseded by another Final standard. It seems 2678 is not final.
2. It would be bad form escalating this to final directly from draft and skipping the last call. Even if this was around forever.

I think you have two options:

1. Marking this abandoned and explaining why.
2. Marking 1123 and 2678, last call and getting them to final, lastly apply this changed of superseding to 1123.

I would be interested to hear other thoughts on this, maybe there's a better way to handle this case or to introduce better rules/processes.

[njgheorghita]

Ahh, ok thanks for the explanation @axic - Since 1123 never received significant adoption among tooling, I'm leaning towards the first option and marking 1123 as abandoned. In terms of the rules, it seems to me to be a strict but fair process, I had just missed that this erc technically never made it past the Draft stage.

[MicahZoltu]

I favor marking this as abandoned if you no longer wish to pursue it. I would like to see us add the Withdrawn status, but progress on that front is moving quite slowly and it isn't a valid state yet.

[MicahZoltu]

Suggested change

superseded-by: 2678

superseded-by is only valid on Final EIPs.

[njgheorghita]

Ahh, ok understood, thanks @MicahZoltu !

[axic]

@njgheorghita from an editor's standpoint this looks fine to me. Perhaps you want some feedback from @gnidan @pipermerriam @djrtwo if they oppose the change.

[pipermerriam]

This has my support.