BEP:	0
Title:	Index of BitTorrent Enhancement Proposals
Version:	cc019ba660805f441593d565cd930a4d1f4ae471
Last-Modified:	Fri Jul 20 09:34:18 2018 -0700
Author:	David Harrison <dave@bittorrent.com>
Status:	Active
Type:	Process
Created:	10-Jan-2008
Post-History:	Oct 13, 2012: updated link to document repository

The BitTorrent Community Forum coordinates the development of the BitTorrent protocol suite and its reference implementation. It is the wish of Bram Cohen that the BitTorrent mainline python implementation remain open source and that the protocol development process be modelled after the Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) process [1].

This document indexes all BitTorrent Enhancement Proposals (BEPs). When a new proposal is submitted, one of the BitTorrent.org editors assigns a BEP number and updates this index appropriately. Each document has a number that never changes and the history of the document is maintained in git [2].

Final and Active Process BEPs

Num	Title
0	Index of BitTorrent Enhancement Proporsals
1	The BEP Process
2	Sample reStructured Text BEP Template
3	The BitTorrent Protocol Specification
4	Known Number Allocations
20	Peer ID Conventions
1000	Pending Standards Track Documents

Accepted BEPs

These BEPs describe mechanisms that have been deployed in one or more BitTorrent implementations and have proven useful. They may require minor revisions. They await the blessing of the BDFL before they can be considered Final.

Num	Title
5	DHT Protocol
6	Fast Extension
9	Extension for Peers to Send Metadata Files
10	Extension Protocol
11	Peer Exchange (PEX)
12	Multitracker Metadata Extension
14	Local Service Discovery
15	UDP Tracker Protocol
19	HTTP/FTP Seeding (GetRight-style)
23	Tracker Returns Compact Peer Lists
27	Private Torrents
29	uTorrent transport protocol
55	Holepunch extension

Draft BEPs

The following BEPs are under consideration for standardization.

Num	Title
7	IPv6 Tracker Extension
16	Superseeding
17	HTTP Seeding (Hoffman-style)
21	Extension for Partial Seeds
24	Tracker Returns External IP
30	Merkle tree torrent extension
31	Tracker Failure Retry Extension
32	IPv6 extension for DHT
33	DHT scrape
34	DNS Tracker Preferences
35	Torrent Signing
36	Torrent RSS feeds
38	Finding Local Data Via Torrent File Hints
39	Updating Torrents Via Feed URL
40	Canonical Peer Priority
41	UDP Tracker Protocol Extensions
42	DHT Security Extension
43	Read-only DHT Nodes
44	Storing arbitrary data in the DHT
45	Multiple-address operation for the BitTorrent DHT
46	Updating Torrents Via DHT Mutable Items
47	Padding files and extended file attributes
48	Tracker Protocol Extension: Scrape
49	Distributed Torrent Feeds
50	Publish/Subscribe Protocol
51	DHT Infohash Indexing
52	The BitTorrent Protocol Specification v2
53	Magnet URI extension - Select specific file indices for download
54	The lt_donthave extension

Deferred BEPs

The editor(s) deem that the following BEPs are not progressing toward standardization, but they have not yet been withdrawn.

Num	Title
8	Tracker Peer Obfuscation
18	Search Engine Specification
22	BitTorrent Local Tracker Discovery Protocol
26	Zeroconf Peer Advertising and Discovery
28	Tracker exchange

Withdrawn BEPs

At this time, no BEPs have been withdrawn.

Rejected BEPs

At this time, no BEPs have been rejected.

[1]	http://www.python.org/dev/peps/

[2]	https://github.com/bittorrent/bittorrent.org