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According to the resolution of Subprojects and project proposals, "A new project proposal that is a feature unique to an existing project will be guided to that existing community to see about joining it." This resolution lets proposals that aim at supporting or being used by several other projects to stand on their own. However, sometimes, for various reasons and possibly despite all the goodwill of the community involved, the project never meets that goal and end ends up being tied to a single other project, within Hypeledger and beyond.
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The proposal is therefore to have projects that had the ambition to serve or support several other projects but are effectively only used in conjunction with a single other project be rolled into that related project after two years18 months. It should be noted that this is similar to what was done for several Fabric related projects per the resolution of Subprojects house keeping.
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