Call for Input: Allow links to the Yellow Paper

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Call for Input: Allow links to the Yellow Paper #275

Closed SamWilsn closed 9 months ago

SamWilsn commented 10 months ago

Decision	Will we merge https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/6834 ?
Method	Rough Consensus
Deadline	October 13, 2023

Pandapip1 commented 10 months ago

I vote yes. It's a free source and the commits are immutable.

SamWilsn commented 10 months ago

I am also in favour of allowing links to the Yellow Paper. It meets the requirements in EIP-5757.

lightclient commented 10 months ago

The yellow paper has not been updated for several forks. Bringing it up-to-date post merge is going to be a huge effort. It has also been deprecated by the execution-specs. We should not allow people to forego using the most up-to-date specs for Ethereum. There is no reason to allow yellow paper links in an EIP in 2023 and beyond.

Pandapip1 commented 10 months ago

Nonetheless, it meets the requirements set by EIP-5757. Also, I believe maintaining the Yellow Paper is valuable.

SamWilsn commented 9 months ago

From @gcolvin:

Allow links.

From @xinbenlv:

Allow links.

SamWilsn commented 9 months ago

I believe rough consensus has been reached. Links to the Yellow Paper will be allowed.

In response to @lightclient's objections, the Yellow Paper meets the requirements in EIP-5757:

Yellow Paper versions are identified by a commit hash.
The Yellow Paper is as available as the EIPs repository itself.
The Yellow Paper is free (as in beer) available.

The text of EIP-5757 says:

Should the editors determine that an origin meets the requirements above, EIP-1 MUST be updated to include:

SamWilsn commented 9 months ago

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/7884