The first ERCs were good and well thought out. I spent three months generating consensus for ERC-721. ERC-20 is clearly used everywhere. Next month a Michelangelo sculpture will sell with 721, CryptoKitties just raised another $12M. There are 3 new 721 applications launching on Rarebits each day (source Dallas Explore 721 meeting).

Now ERCs are getting merged as draft (same level as 721) constantly with minimal review.

github.com/ethereum/EIPs Create EIP 191 ethereum:master ← Arachnid:191 Arachnid +63 -0

github.com/ethereum/EIPs ERC-820 Pseudo-introspection using a registry contract. ethereum:master ← jbaylina:eip820 jbaylina +274 -0

github.com/ethereum/EIPs ERC-777 A New Advanced Token Standard ethereum:master ← jbaylina:eip777 jbaylina +649 -0

Also, EIPs with zero use cases or motivation are being accepted “just because I can” like this one:

The current EIP-1 process “If the EIP collaborators approve … the EIP editor will … merge your pull request” is being skirted or ignored altogether.

I will note that the Immutability Enforcement Proposal was not merged even though it is technically just as valid as the other proposals and has more community support: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/894

I believe if this trend continues then the relevance of EIP/ERC as a whole will be tested. And it will become vulnerable to a fork.

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