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Immutability Enforcement Proposal (IMP) #894

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eip: 894
title: Immutability Enforcement Proposal (IMP)
author: Marius Kjærstad
type: Meta
category: Standards Track
status: Draft
created: 2018-02-21
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## Definition
The definition of bailouts in this EIP is state changes to the Ethereum blockchain, through a hardfork, that treat account holders in different ways.


## Simple Summary
Provide a standardized response against proposals for bailouts on the official Ethereum repositories.


## Abstract
Proposals that advocate for bailouts on the Ethereum blockchain should not be merged into the official Ethereum repositories.


## Motivation
The issue of bailouts on the Ethereum blockchain is always controversial. This EIP attempts to raise the barriers for bailouts.
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This is a bad assumption. The controversial-ness of an irregular state change can be measured with many different (imperfect) mechanisms like CarbonVote, miner signalling, etc. It would be a bad decisions to assert that anything is "always" controversial.

This EIP doesn't raise the barrier for bailouts, it raises the barrier for discussing what you consider to be "bailouts". If approved as intended, it would be nothing more than frivolous censorship of harmless discussion.

Opposition to irregular state changes should be voiced in a fair setting, which this proposal seeks to undermine.

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It is not censorship since it is not deleted or restricted in any way. It is just not merged.

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How is refusal to merge on principle not arbitrary restriction?

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There are no restriction on freedom of speech.

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I really don't think this EIP or the one it's clearly in response to have anything to do with freedom of speech.

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Finally something we agree on :)



## Specification
If a pull request is opened that advocates for bailouts or implements code that will execute bailouts on the Ethereum blockchain, it will be closed by the maintainers.


## Justification
Bailouts play favorites with some accounts on the Ethereum blockchain. This is corruption we can not tolerate in the official Ethereum repositories.


## Rationale
The primary consideration for the approach described above was to reject all bailouts. A secondary consideration was to standardize the response to such pull requests.


## Copyright
Copyright and related rights waived via [CC0](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/).