Weekly Governance Update (11 March 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 participate.

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

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Last Call FIPs - final opportunity for community feedback!

• N/A

Current FIP Drafts - now accepting community feedback

• FIP0027 - Change DealProposal label field from string to byte array (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0029 - Beneficiary address for storage providers (FIP)(Discussion)
• 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

• 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)
• First draft of fungible token standard (following ERC-20) (PR)(Discussion)
• Askv2 Protocol (PR)(Discussion)

🔥 HOT 🔥 Discussion Topics

• Change type of label in DealProposal to be []byte rather than string - This proposal (FIP0027; see above) has been open for a while, and is now being newly reviewed. Pending the forthcoming FVM, network implementers have proposed changing the label type to a union type to better support the introduction of canonical Rust actors.
• Deep-Dive: Filecoin Improvement Proposals - This discussion topic provides new documentation for the FIPs process and workflow. It also codifies changes and set standards for FIP submissions, which were first trialed in the lead-up to the network v15 upgrade. Community feedback strongly requested!
• FVM -driven gas model changes - This is the first in a set of FIPs that will change the Filecoin network gas model to better support the forthcoming FVM. A great place to ask questions about how the introduction of the FVM may impact gas and other network fees.

Other Governance Updates

• N/A - have a lovely weekend! ☀️

[Fatman13]

Great format!