About RFCs

An RFC is a request for comment. The CatColab team uses RFCs as a way to communicate with each other and the community about features we intend to build and the mathematics those features are based on.

A distinctive feature of RFCs is that they represent a design at a particular point in time, as understood by a particular person. Thus, an RFC should have a date and an author. Unlike for other kinds of documentation, there is no expectation that an RFC will be updated over time as its implementation evolves.

At this time, the format of an CatColab RFC is not standardized. In the RFCs written so far, we’ve taken inspiriation from the RFC template used by the Rust language.