A comprehensive framework for managing Filecoin Improvement Proposals through transparent, community-driven governance
This initial phase facilitates open dialogue within the community before formalizing any proposals. It encourages early collaboration, reduces redundancy, and increases alignment with community priorities.
Formalizes ideas from discussions into structured proposals that clearly outline intent, implementation details, and anticipated impacts. This stage enhances proposal quality and readability.
Subject matter experts or dedicated editors analyze drafts to provide critical and constructive feedback. This maintains high-quality proposals and reduces future complications.
Formally assigns the FIP a unique identifier and places it in an official governance pipeline. This provides traceability, clarity, and structure to the lifecycle management.
Introduces a deliberate delay before implementation, allowing community and stakeholders sufficient time for comprehensive review. This prevents rash or inadequately vetted changes.
During the timelock period, two parallel veto mechanisms operate to ensure comprehensive oversight of proposals:
The Technical Committee holds veto power over proposals posing substantial network security risks, requiring supermajority consensus among committee members.
Scope: Network security, technical integrity, and stability concerns
Threshold: Supermajority consensus required
Enables community-driven rejection through an adaptive quorum model that prevents small, unrepresentative groups from blocking proposals.
Scope: Community concerns, governance issues, and ecosystem impact
Mechanism: Adaptive quorum with negative turnout bias
This mechanism prevents small, unrepresentative groups from vetoing proposals by adjusting the required quorum based on turnout. Lower turnout requires higher consensus percentages, ensuring that significant opposition (rather than simple inactivity) is needed to stop proposals. This reduces voter fatigue and apathy while maintaining robust community oversight.
Ensures alignment and understanding among implementers, followed by final execution and deployment. This secures efficient, coherent execution of proposals.
All stages of the FIP process are open and visible to the community, ensuring accountability and trust.
Decisions are made through community consensus, with multiple opportunities for input and feedback.
Network security and stability take precedence, with dedicated oversight mechanisms in place.
Emphasis on moving things forward with clear goals, being agile and lean in our governance processes.
This framework is designed to empower robust governance, prioritizing clarity, transparency, and community agency. We warmly invite your feedback, suggestions, or concerns regarding any aspect of this lifecycle.