Weekly Governance Update (8 December, 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)
• FIP0074 - Remove cron-based automatic deal settlement (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0075 - Improvements to the FVM randomness syscalls (FIP)(Discussion 1)(Discussion 2)
• FIP0079 - Add BLS Aggregate Signatures to FVM (FIP)(Discussion)

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)
• SuperSnaps: Adding Snarkpack for SnapsDeals (PR)(Discussion)
• On-chain Retrieval Expectations (PR)(Discussion)
• Add a message for New CC Sector with Snap-up Data (PR)(Discussion)
• Add support for upgradable actors (PR)(Discussion)
• Add built-in Actor events in the Verified Registry, Miner and Market Actors (PR)(Discussion)

Last Call - Final opportunity for community feedback! [Until Dec 20, 2023]

• FIP0076 - Direct Data Onboarding (FIP Draft)(Discussion)

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)
• FIP0077 - Add Cost Opportunity For New Miner Creation (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0078 - Remove Restrictions on the Minting of Datacap (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0080 - Phasing Out Fil+ and Restoring Deal Quality Multiplier to 1x (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0081 - Introduce lower bound for sector initial pledge (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
• @lucaniz and team are currently seeking the input of the Filecoin community for their proposal to set power table lookback to 7 days. Please weigh in before they propose a formal FIP with a stabilized value. Read more here
• Have you seen the Aggregator Deal Standard proposal by @honghaoq? Read more here
• After several weeks of refinement to the spec of the Faster Finality of Filecoin FIP, the authors are now accepting community feedback and discussions of the latest drafts here. See @vukolic's post here for more information.

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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

• nv21 Watermelon Upgrade lands on mainnet next week Dec 12 2023 at 13:30 UTC. Read more here