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# Proposals

Changes to the aDNA standard are proposed as numbered **aDNA Enhancement Proposals**.
The process is described by [AEP-1](/community/proposals/aep-1/), which is itself a
proposal, filed through the process it describes.

Numbers are permanent. A proposal that is rejected or withdrawn keeps its number and stays on this
page, so what the project turned down is as readable as what it adopted.

## The archive

All aDNA Enhancement Proposals, by number
# Title Status Author Sponsor

[AEP-1](/community/proposals/aep-1/) [The aDNA Enhancement Proposal process](/community/proposals/aep-1/) final Stanley Sekar Stanley Sekar

[AEP-2](/community/proposals/aep-2/) [Canonical URL casing and permanent redirects](/community/proposals/aep-2/) review Stanley Sekar Stanley Sekar

## The states

Every proposal is in exactly one of eight states. Occupancy below is counted from the archive above,
not asserted — which is why most rows read zero.

The eight proposal states, their meanings, and how many proposals are in each
State Meaning Terminal Currently

draft Written down and numbered, not yet under review. no 0

review Under public review; a sponsor is shepherding it. no 1

accepted Decided yes; implementation may begin. no 0

final Implemented and enforced by a check that fails when the rule is violated. yes 1

rejected Reviewed and declined, with the reason recorded. yes 0

withdrawn Retracted by its author before a decision. yes 0

superseded Replaced by a later proposal, which is named on it. yes 0

dormant Nobody is shepherding it; revivable by anyone. no 0

A terminal state is terminal for that number. A revived idea returns as a new proposal that names the
one it descends from; the old number keeps its old outcome.

## How to file one

Open a change proposal on the
[aDNA repository](https://github.com/aDNA-Network/aDNA/issues/new?template=change_proposal.md).
If the change is *normative* — if it alters what the standard requires of a conforming vault —
it becomes an AEP and is numbered here. If it does not, it stays an ordinary issue or pull request,
which is faster for everyone.

Agents may author proposals, and every proposal discloses whether one did. Only a human can ratify:
no proposal reaches `accepted` without a named person and a date. The
[contribution guide](https://github.com/aDNA-Network/aDNA/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
covers the non-normative routes, and participation is governed by the
[code of conduct](https://github.com/aDNA-Network/aDNA/blob/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).

ℹ The state of this process

The process began on 20 August 2026. There are **2** proposals on record and the next number to be assigned is
**AEP-3**. There is no published median review time here because none has
been measured yet; when there is enough history to compute one, it will appear.