Weekly Governance Updates (3, November 2023)

[luckyparadise]

This weekly report provides a high-level overview of what's happening with Filecoin governance.

Anyone is welcome to participate in governance. To learn more about any of the below materials, simply follow the links and feel free to weigh in.

If you have questions or ideas related to FIPs or Filecoin governance, please start a new discussion in the FIPs Forum or post directly in #fil-fips.

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Accepted FIPs - FIPs awaiting network implementation

• FIP0052 - Increase max sector commitment to 3.5 years (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0059 - Synthetic PoRep (FIP Draft)(Discussion).
• FIP0065 - Ignore built-in market locked balance in circulating supply calculation (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0067 - PoRep Security Policy & Replacement Sealing Enforcement (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0070 - Allow SPs to move partitions between deadlines (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0071 - Deterministic State Access (IPLD Reachability)(FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0072 - Improved Event Syscall API (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0073 - Remove beneficiary from the self_destruct syscall (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0075 - Improvements to the FVM randomness syscalls (FIP)(Discussion 1)(Discussion 2)

Open Pull Requests - upcoming FIP drafts awaiting technical review; now accepting community feedback

• Update FIP0001 (PR)(Discussion)
• Deprecate ProveCommitSectors to Avoid Single PoRep Proof Verification in Cron (PR)(Discussion)
• Initial draft for on chain commd (PR)(Discussion 1) (Discussion 2)
• Draft of Phasing Out Fil+ and Restoring Deal Quality Multiplier to 1x (PR)(Discussion)
• SuperSnaps: Adding Snarkpack for SnapsDeals (PR)(Discussion)
• FRC- Change v2 piece multihashes to enable arbitrarily sized date (PR)
• FRC - Add recipient data to return values from Transfer (PR)
• Add a message for New CC Sector with Snap-up Data (PR)(Discussion)

Last Call - Final opportunity for community feedback!

• FIP0074- Remove cron-based automatic deal settlement FIP Draft(Discussion). Last call until 17 Nov, 2023.
• FIP0079- Add BLS Aggregate Signatures to FVM FIP Draft(Discussion). Last Call until 17 Nov, 2023.

Current FIP Drafts - Now accepting community feedback; merged into repo

• FIP0037 - Gas model adjustment for user programmability (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0039 - Filecoin Message Replay Protection (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0063 - Switching to New Drand Mainnet Network (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0076 - Direct Data Onboarding (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0077 - Add Cost Opportunity For New Miner Creation (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0078 - Remove Restrictions on the Minting of Datacap (FIP Draft)(Discussion)

🔥 HOT 🔥 Discussion Topics

• Filecoin Foundation has recently released the FIP draft for a proposed update to FIP0001. This new proposal contains significant improvements to the existing governance models of Filecoin. Read the full draft here
• FIP0074: Remove cron-based automatic deal settlement by @anorth & @alexytsu proposes a method to the built-in market actor to allow storage providers to settle deal payments manually. This FIP is now in Last Call and you can read more here
• @lucaniz posted a Pre-FIP discussion on 'Non Interactive PoRep: improving onboarding pipeline allowing for a real separation between storage and proving, without compromising security'. You an read more and weigh in here

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nv21 Watermelon network upgrade - FIPs considered in-scope for this upgrade

• FIP0052: Increase Max Sector Commitment to 3.5 years [ACCEPTED]
• FIP0059: Synthetic PoRep [ACCEPTED]
• FIP0070: Allow SPs to move partitions between deadlines [ACCEPTED]
• FIP0071: Deterministic State Access (IPLD Reachability) [ACCEPTED]
• FIP0072: Improved event syscall API [ACCEPTED]
• FIP0073: Remove beneficiary from the self_destruct syscall [ACCEPTED]
• FIP0075: FVM Randomness [ACCEPTED]

Other Governance Updates

• There are changes to the timeline for the scheduled nv21 Watermelon network upgrade due to a bug discovered on calibnet. This bug fix will require a calibration upgrade scheduled at epoch 1070494on 07-11-2023. More information about this can be found here. Revised timelines are below;

WatermelonFix calib upgrade: November 7, 2023

Mainnet upgrade: November 29, 2023

• Join us for the next Community Governance Call on Monday, Nov 27, 2023. Register here if you have not already done so.
• Follow Filecoin Governance on Twitter here and get real-time updates on proposed FIPs changes and so much more on the go!
• Join other Filecoin governance enthusiasts in this Slack channel- a place to share and exchange ideas on governing Filecoin.