Weekly Governance Update (30 April 2022)

[kaitlin-beegle]

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

• FIP0027 - Change type of DealProposal Label field from a (Golang) String to a Union (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0029 - Beneficiary address for storage providers (FIP)(Discussion)

Last Call FIPs - final opportunity for community feedback!

• N/A

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

• FIP0030 - Introducing the Filecoin Virtual Machine (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0031 - Atomic switch to non-programmable FVM (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0032 - Gas model adjustment for non-programmable FVM (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0033 - Explicit premium for FIL+ Verified deals (FIP)(Discussion)

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

• Indexer FIP (PR)(Discussion)
• Add FIP proposing p256 address types (PR)(Discussion)
• FIP gas model adjustment for user programmability (PR)(Discussion)
• Set pre-commit deposit independent of sector content (PR)(Discussion)
• Supporting contracts as deal clients in the built-in storage market actor (PR)(Discussion)
• FIP Filecoin Message Replay Protection (PR)(Discussion)
• Askv2 Protocol (PR)(Discussion)

🔥 HOT 🔥 Discussion Topics

• Proposal: FIP on Indexer - This discussion topic, the latest in the FIPs repo, proposes an 'advertising' protocol for FIP indexer nodes. This is an exciting proposal that will make it easier for the Filecoin indexer to remain up-to-date with network data. For more information, check out the FIP draft, or revisit Core Devs #41, during which the team presented their proposal to network implementers.
• Owner key change by random PoSt challenge proposal - This community proposal is certainly the most popular of the week, with many people weighing in on the proposed method of allowing for miner key changes via PoSt challenge.
• Onchain deal renewal for deal sectors - This discussion topic was opened, and seeks to explore the possibility of extending deal sectors beyond the current 540 day limit. This is an early idea looking for feedback - if you have ideas, questions, or want to know more, be sure to check it out!

Other Governance Updates

• The v16 'Skyr' Network is currently in progress. To keep track of timeline changes and other updates, be sure to keep tabs on the network planning thread in the TPM repo.