Weekly Governance Updates (Sept 15 2022)

[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

• FIP0027 - Change type of DealProposal Label field from a (Golang) String to a Union (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0029 - Beneficiary address for storage providers (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0034 - Set pre-commit deposit independent of sector content (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0041 - Forward Compatibility for PreCommit and ReplicaUpdate (FIP)(Discussion)

Last Call - Final opportunity for community feedback!

• FIP0036 - Introducing a Sector Duration Multiple for Longer Term Sector Commitment (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0044 - Standard Authentication Method for Actors (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0045 - De-couple verified registry from markets (FIP)(Discussion)
• FIP0047 - Proof Expiration & PoRep Security Policy (FIP)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)

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

• FIP0043 - Introduce Domain Separation - (FIP)(Discussion)

🔥 HOT 🔥 Discussion Topics

• Following the conversation on FIP0036 Introducing a Sector Duration Multiple for Longer Term Storage Commitment? @anorth recently wrote up a summary of outstanding questions. Check it out (here)!

• Still on FIP0036, community members have continued to share the thoughts on this FIP. You can read more (here)!

• @Stebalienteven has put together a proposal to introduce new extensible address class where user-deployed actors can assign addresses from an f4 sub-namespace reserved for that actor. You can read more (here)!

Other Governance Updates

• Plans are rapidly unfolding for nv17 - to stay in the loop, be sure to check out the (planning thread in the TPM Repo)!
• FIP0036 is in Last call and consensus will be determined by FIL Poll. This voting process commenced Wednesday, September 14 at 3:00pm PST and will close at 3:00pm PST on Wednesday, September 28. During Last Call, community members are welcome to vote to 'approve' or 'reject' FIP0036 in entirety.