Weekly Governance Updates (5 April 2024)

[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

• FIP0063 - Switching to new Drand mainnet network (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)
• FIP0074 - Remove cron-based automatic deal settlement (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0076 - Direct Data Onboarding (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0079 - Add BLS Aggregate Signatures to FVM (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0082 - Add support for aggregated replica update proofs (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0083 - Add Built-in Actor Events (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0084 - Remove Storage Miner Actor Method ProveCommitSectors (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0085: Convert f090 Mining Reserve Actor to Keyless Account Actor (FIP Draft) (Discussion)

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

• Update FIP0001 (PR)(Discussion)
• On-chain Retrieval Expectations (PR)(Discussion)

Last Call - Final opportunity for community feedback!

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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)
• 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)
• FIP0086 - Fast Finality in Filecoin (F3) (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0090 - Non-Interactive PoRep (FIP Draft)(Discussion)

🔥 HOT 🔥 Discussion Topics

• @CluEleSsUK started a discussion on protocol-based metering for randomness distribution and proposes a mechanism through which Filecoin can compensate the drand protocol for the operational costs required to maintain and generate the randomness beacons. Read the discussion here
• 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
• There is an ongoing discussion to make more explicit the roles and expectations of FIP Editors to improve the experience of the Filecoin community with the FIPs process. Read the full discussion and contribute here
• @The-Wayvy started the discussion to set the termination fee of CC sectors to Zero. You can read more about this here.

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Other Governance Updates

• The mainnet date for nv22 Dragon Upgrade has changed to April 11 2024, at 14:00:00 UTC. Please mark your calendars. More information about this upgrade can be found here

nv22 Network Upgrade - FIPs in-scope for this upgrade

FIP Number	Title	Status	Link
FIP0063	Switching to a new Drand Mainnet Network	ACCEPTED	FIP0063
FIP0074	Remove cron-based automatic deal settlement	ACCEPTED	FIP0074
FIP0076	Direct Data Onboarding	ACCEPTED	FIP0076
FIP0083	Ecosystem Tooling: Add Builtin Actor Events in verifreg, Miner & Market Actors	ACCEPTED	FIP0083

nv22 Upgrade Timeline
All FIPs to enter Last Call by 15 Jan 2024
Code Freeze: 1 Feb 2024 [TBC]
Calibnet upgrade: 11 March 2024
Mainnet upgrade: 11 April 2024