Weekly Governance Updates (15 Sept 2023)

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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)

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

• Draft of Removing Restriction to Access to Multiplier and Allowing Unrestricted Minting of Datacap (PR)
• Deprecate ProveCommitSectors to Avoid Single PoRep Proof Verification in Cron (PR)(Discussion)
• Initial draft for on chain commd (PR)(Discussion 1) (Discussion 2)
• Remove cron-based automatic deal settlement (PR)(Discussion)
• FVM Randomness (PR)(Discussion 1) (Discussion 2)
• Improved Event Syscall API (PR)
• Draft of Phasing Out Fil+ and Restoring Deal Quality Multiplier to 1x (PR)(Discussion)
• Add Cost Opportunity For New Miner Creation (PR)(Discussion)
• First Draft of Market Manual Settlement (PR)(Discussion)
• First Draft of Direct Data Onboarding (PR)(Discussion)

Last Call - Final opportunity for community feedback!

• FIP0070 -Allow SPs to move partitions between deadlines (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0071 - Deterministic State Access (IPLD Reachability) (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0072 - Improved event syscall API (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0073 - Remove beneficiary from the self_destruct syscall (FIP Draft)(Discussion)
• FIP0075 - Improvements to the FVM randomness syscalls (FIP Draft)(Discussion 1), (Discussion 2)

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)
• FIP0074 - Remove cron-based automatic deal settlement (FIP Draft)(Discussion)

🔥 HOT 🔥 Discussion Topics

• @kaitlin-beegle posted a public announcement regarding the FIP0001v2 Initiative, a project championed by the Filecoin Foundation on proposed FIP process changes. Read more here
• We have 5 FIPs in Last Call 📞 . Review the FIPs above and weigh in.

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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 [LAST CALL until 26 Sept]
• FIP0071: Deterministic State Access (IPLD Reachability) [LAST CALL until 26 Sept]
• FIP0072: Improved event syscall API [LAST CALL until 27 Sept]
• FIP0073: Remove beneficiary from the self_destruct syscall [LAST CALL until 26 Sept]
• FIP0075: FVM Randomness [LAST CALL until 26 Sept]

Other Governance Updates

• Join us for the Community Governance Call on 25 September 2023. Register here if you have not already done so.
• Follow Filecoin Governance on Twitter here and get real-time updates on proposed FIPs changes and so much more on the go!
• Join other Filecoin governance enthusiasts in this Slack channel- a place to share and exchange ideas on governing Filecoin.
• Discussions are currently ongoing for the pending nv21 network upgrade (now called the watermelon 🍉 upgrade), please follow the discussion here