RLN Improvement Proposals

The Regulated Liability Network (RLN) is a co-operative concept which is being tested and investigated by a number of financial institutions. Broadly, it is the means to provide interoperability between the liabilities issued by different regulated instition - for example between bank issued tokens and central bank issued tokens (CBDC).

This forum assumes that there will be different technological ways of implementing this aim and that more than one RLN might exist simultaneously - such as within a jurisdiction or amongst a particular group of participants. To this end, the forum seeks to define how such 'Settlement Domains' will interact so that ledgers within one RLN implementation can interoperate with those in other implementations.

This forum is intended to be ledger and technology agnostic and seeks to define a common protocol which can be implemented by technology providers so that their implementation can interact with other implementations. Improvements to the RLN protocol will be published as improvement proposals and will follow a defined process (RLN-IP 2 describes the full process) to becoming accepted.

This site will host and publish the status of RLN improvement proposals. The site is roughly based upon similar improvement proposal sites including PEP (Python), EIP (Ethereum) and BIP (Bitcoin). Where approriate, it has borrowed text and structure from those sites.

People wishing to submit RLN-IPs, first should propose their idea or document to the [https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/rln-ips rln-ips@lists.linuxfoundation.org] mailing list (do not assign a number - read RLN-IP 2 for the full process). After discussion, please open a PR. After copy-editing and acceptance, it will be published here.

Having an RLN-IP here does not make it a formally accepted standard until its status becomes Final or Active.