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<h1 class="page-heading">AIPs </h1>
<p>ADAMANT Improvement Proposals (AIPs) describe standards for the ADAMANT Messenger platform, including core protocol specifications, and client APIs.</p>

<h2>Contributing</h2>
<p>First review <a href="AIPS/aip-1">AIP-1</a>. Then clone the repository and add your AIP to it. There is a <a href="https://github.com/Adamant-im/AIPs/blob/master/aip-X.md">template AIP here</a>. Then submit a Pull Request to ADAMANT's <a href="https://github.com/Adamant-im/AIPs">AIPs repository</a>.</p>

<h2>AIP status terms</h2>
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  <li><strong>Draft</strong>: an AIP that is open for consideration</li>
  <li><strong>Accepted</strong>: an AIP that is planned for immediate adoption, i.e. expected to be included in the next hard fork</li>
  <li><strong>Final</strong>: an AIP that has been adopted in a previous hard fork</li>
  <li><strong>Deferred</strong>: an AIP that is not being considered for immediate adoption. May be reconsidered in the future for a subsequent hard fork</li>
</ul>

<h2>AIP Types</h2>

<p>AIPs are separated into a number of types, and each has its own list of AIPs.</p>

<h3>Standard ({{site.pages|where:"type","Standards"|size}})</h3>

<h4><a href="{{"core"|relative_url}}">Core</a> ({{site.pages|where:"type","Standards"|where:"category","Core"|size}})</h4>
<p>Improvements requiring a node update.</p>

<h4><a href="{{"networking"|relative_url}}">Networking</a> ({{site.pages|where:"type","Standards"|where:"category","Networking"|size}})</h4>
<p>Internode communications updates.</p>

<h4><a href="{{"interface"|relative_url}}">Interface</a> ({{site.pages|where:"type","Standards"|where:"category","Interface"|size}})</h4>
<p>Includes improvements around client API/RPC specifications and standards.</p>

<h4><a href="{{"api"|relative_url}}">API</a> ({{site.pages|where:"type","Standards"|where:"category","API"|size}})</h4>
<p>API endpoint specifications.</p>

<h4><a href="{{"arc"|relative_url}}">ARC</a> ({{site.pages|where:"type","Standards"|where:"category","ARC"|size}})</h4>
<p>Application-level standards and conventions, including URI schemes, library/package formats, and wallet formats.</p>

<h3><a href="{{"informational"|relative_url}}">Informational</a> ({{site.pages|where:"type","Informational"|size}})</h3>
<p>Describes an ADAMANT design issue, or provides general guidelines or information to the  community, but does not propose a new feature. Informational AIPs do not necessarily represent  community consensus or a recommendation, so users and implementers are free to ignore Informational AIPs or follow their advice.</p>

<h3><a href="{{"meta"|relative_url}}">Meta</a> ({{site.pages|where:"type","Meta"|size}})</h3>
<p>Describes a process surrounding ADAMANT or proposes a change to (or an event in) a process. </p>