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# EIPs Insight (November 2021)

## Summary
In the month of November, we have [3 new proposals](https://hackmd.io/@poojaranjan/EIPsInsightNovember2021#New-proposals-Draft) introduced as `Draft`.
[3 EIPs](https://hackmd.io/@poojaranjan/EIPsInsightNovember2021#To-Stagnant) are moved to `Stagnant` and 3 resurrected - [2 EIPs](https://hackmd.io/@poojaranjan/EIPsInsightNovember2021#Stagnant-to-Review) to `Review` and [1 EIP](https://hackmd.io/@poojaranjan/EIPsInsightNovember2021#Stagnant-to-Draft) to `Draft`. [2 EIPs](https://hackmd.io/@poojaranjan/EIPsInsightNovember2021#Review-to-Last-Call) were moved to the `Last Call` where the review period has ended and there are pull requests to move them to `Final`. [1 EIP](https://hackmd.io/@poojaranjan/EIPsInsightNovember2021#To-Withdrawn) was `Withdrawn` by the author. A couple of non-normative changes were made to [2 existing EIPs](https://hackmd.io/@poojaranjan/EIPsInsightNovember2021#Non-normative-changes-to-Final-proposals).


There are some [other improvements](https://hackmd.io/@poojaranjan/EIPsInsightNovember2021#Other-improvements) and noticeable updates to EIP-1 including EIP process image, rename `review-period-end` to `last-call-deadline` and strengthen the “discussion-url” rules.

Other stats - This repo has 3k Forks and **891 users** have put it on the watchlist. Open [Pull Request - 54](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pulls) & [Issues - 430](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues).

## New EIPs & Status change
(Merged on or before November 30th, 2021)

### New proposals (`Draft`)
1. [EIP-3770: Chain-specific addresses](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3770)
2. [EIP-4444: Bound Historical Data in Execution Clients](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4444)
3. [EIP-4396: Time-Aware Base Fee Calculation](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-4396)

### `Stagnant` to `Draft`
1. [EIP-3224: Described Data](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4428) Ref: [PR](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3224)

### `Stagnant` to `Review`

1. [EIP-2464: eth/65: transaction announcements and retrievals](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2464) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4395)
2. [EIP-2364: eth/64: forkid-extended protocol handshake](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2364) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4395)

### `Draft` to `Review`
* None

### `Review` to `Last Call`
1. [EIP-2464: eth/65: transaction announcements and retrievals](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2464) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4424)
2. [EIP-2364: eth/64: forkid-extended protocol handshake](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2364) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4424)

### `Last Call` to `Final`
* None

### To `Stagnant`

1. [EIP-3534: Restricted Chain Context Type Transactions](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3534) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4425)
2. [EIP-2070: Hardfork Meta: Berlin](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2070) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4376)
3. [EIP-3450: Standardized Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme for BIP-39 Mnemonics](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-3450) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4377)

### To `Withdrawn`
* [EIP-2733: Transaction Package](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2733) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4439)

### Non-normative changes to `Final` proposals
1. [EIP-2681: Limit account nonce to 2^64-1](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2681) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4437)
2. [EIP-2124: Fork identifier for chain compatibility checks.](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-2124) Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4415) & [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4411)

### EIP category change
* None

## Other improvements
1. Update EIP GitHub README for `eipv`. Ref [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4442)
2. Update [eip-template](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/eip-template.md)
* Update "discussion to" place & status case. Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4498)
* Update the page to display withdrawal-reason. Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4420)
2. Changes to [EIP-1](https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-1)
* Update EIP process image for "Stagnant" status. Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4451)
* Better describe the preamble fields in EIP-1. Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4446/commits/48711e1b0757f72aec425fb39560140704e7e238)
* Rename review-period-end to last-call-deadline. Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4438)
* Remove `updated` field. Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4441)
* Add RFC 2119 recommendation to EIP-1. Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4412)
* Strengthen the discussion-url rules. Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4419/commits/b4da8d8fdbf4b7be5000ccee376fab1499d695e1)
3. Update EIP Editors that get mentioned. Ref: [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4390) & [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4418)
4. Bump addressable from 2.7.0 to 2.8.0 Ref [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/3650)
5. Bump nokogiri from 1.11.4 to 1.12.5 Ref [PR](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/pull/4332)

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## General stats (October 30, 2021 – November 30, 2021)


Excluding merges, **23 authors** have pushed **86 commits** to master and **99 commits** to all branches. On master, **56 files** have changed and there have been **[946](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/compare/942826caf0e404458f0b0f3ed49fe4ae15f61056...master) additions** and **[215](https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/compare/942826caf0e404458f0b0f3ed49fe4ae15f61056...master) deletions**.