# Bitcoin Lightning Improvement Proposal https://github.com/lightning/blips bLIP stands for Bitcoin Lightning Improvement Proposal. A bLIP is a design document providing information to the Lightning community, or describing a new feature for the Lightning Network. The bLIP should provide a concise technical specification of the feature and a rationale for the feature. The bLIP author is responsible for building consensus within the community and documenting dissenting opinions. Importantly, if a feature is intended to become universal or near universal, it must be a [BOLT](https://github.com/lightning/bolts). People wishing to submit bLIPs (Bitcoin Lightning Improvement Proposals) should first propose their idea to the [Lightning development mailing list](https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/lightning-dev). After discussion, please open a PR. After copy-editing and acceptance, it will be published here. For more detail on the process, please read [bLIP-0001](https://github.com/lightning/blips/blob/master/blip-0001.md) and [bLIP-0002](https://github.com/lightning/blips/blob/master/blip-0002.md).