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bip3: Improve compatibility section

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@ -527,9 +527,10 @@ mentioned in the [Changelog](#changelog) section.
- The remaining statuses are Draft, Complete, Deployed, and Closed.
- The comment system is abolished.[^comments]
- A BIP in Draft or Complete status may no longer be closed solely on grounds of not making progress for three years.[^rejection]
- A BIP in Draft status may be set to Closed by anyone if it appears to have stopped making progress for at least a
year and its authors do not assert that they are still working on it when contacted.
- A BIP in Draft status may be updated to Closed status if it appears to have stopped making progress for at least a
year and its authors do not assert within four weeks of being contacted that they are still working on it.
- Complete BIPs can only be moved to Closed by its authors and may remain in Complete indefinitely.
- A Changelog section is introduced to track significant changes to BIPs after they have reached the Complete status.
- Process BIPs are living documents that do not ossify and may be modified indefinitely.
- Some judgment calls previously required from BIP Editors are reassigned either to the BIP authors or the repositorys
audience.
@ -552,6 +553,7 @@ mentioned in the [Changelog](#changelog) section.
- "Comments-URI" and "Comment-Summary" headers are dropped from the preamble.[^comments]
- The "Superseded-By" header is replaced with the "Proposed-Replacement" header.
- The "Post-History" header is replaced with the "Discussion" header.
- The optional "Version" header is introduced.
- The "Discussions-To" header is dropped as it has never been used in any BIP.
- Introduce Deputies and optional "Deputies" header.
- The BIP "Title" header may now contain up to 50 characters (increased from 44 in BIP2).