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bip3: Improve compatibility section
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- The remaining statuses are Draft, Complete, Deployed, and Closed.
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- The comment system is abolished.[^comments]
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- A BIP in Draft or Complete status may no longer be closed solely on grounds of not making progress for three years.[^rejection]
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- A BIP in Draft status may be set to Closed by anyone if it appears to have stopped making progress for at least a
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year and its authors do not assert that they are still working on it when contacted.
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- A BIP in Draft status may be updated to Closed status if it appears to have stopped making progress for at least a
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year and its authors do not assert within four weeks of being contacted that they are still working on it.
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- Complete BIPs can only be moved to Closed by its authors and may remain in Complete indefinitely.
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- A Changelog section is introduced to track significant changes to BIPs after they have reached the Complete status.
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- Process BIPs are living documents that do not ossify and may be modified indefinitely.
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- Some judgment calls previously required from BIP Editors are reassigned either to the BIP authors or the repository’s
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audience.
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- "Comments-URI" and "Comment-Summary" headers are dropped from the preamble.[^comments]
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- The "Superseded-By" header is replaced with the "Proposed-Replacement" header.
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- The "Post-History" header is replaced with the "Discussion" header.
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- The optional "Version" header is introduced.
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- The "Discussions-To" header is dropped as it has never been used in any BIP.
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- Introduce Deputies and optional "Deputies" header.
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- The BIP "Title" header may now contain up to 50 characters (increased from 44 in BIP 2).

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