 Various authors have taken the theory of decoherent histories as providing an interpretation of quantum mechanics. For instance, Gell-Mann and Hartle sometimes talk of decoherent histories as a neo-Everettian approach, while Omnès appears to think of histories along neo-Copenhagen lines (perhaps as an experimental context creating a ‘quantum phenomenon’ that can stretch back into the  past).[10]  Griffiths (2002) has probably developed the most detailed of these interpretational approaches (also addressing various earlier criticisms, e.g. by Dowker and Kent (1995, 1996)). In itself, however, the formalism is interpretationally neutral and has the particular merit of bringing out that when interference is suppressed, one can reidentify different components of the state over time, making this formalism especially appropriate for discussing temporal evolution at the level of the non-interfering components.