Ethereum Core Devs Meeting 74 Agenda

[timbeiko]

Ethereum Core Devs Meeting 74 Agenda

• Meeting Date/Time: Friday 1 November 2019, 14:00 UTC
• Meeting Duration 1.5 hours
• YouTube Live Stream
• Istanbul Meta EIP
  • Istanbul EIP Implementation Tracker by @holiman
• Berlin Meta EIP

Agenda

1. Istanbul updates, if any
2. Berlin
   • Ice Age
   • Tentatively Accepted EIPs
     • EIP-663: Unlimited SWAP and DUP instructions
     • EIP-1380: Reduced gas cost for call to self
     • EIP-1702: Generalized account versioning scheme
     • EIP-1962: EC arithmetic and pairings with runtime definitions
       replaces EIP-1829
     • EIP-1985: Sane limits for certain EVM parameters
     • EIP-2045: Particle gas costs for EVM opcodes
     • EIP-2046: Reduced gas cost for static calls made to precompiles
     • EIP-1057: ProgPoW, a Programmatic Proof-of-Work
   • Process & scheduling discussions
3. Testing updates
4. Review previous decisions made and action items
   • Call 73 [Notes TBA]
5. Client Updates (only if they are posted in the comments below)
   a) Geth
   b) Parity Ethereum
   c) Aleth/eth
   d) Trinity/PyEVM
   e) EthereumJS
   f) EthereumJ/Harmony
   g) Besu
   h) Turbo Geth
   i) Nimbus
   m) Nethermind
6. Research Updates (only if they are posted in the comments below)

[pizzarob]

Is it possible to discuss ethereum/EIPs#2310 during this next meeting?

[sorpaas]

From Berlin hard fork we'll be using an EIP-centric process, and each proposed EIP now must have a champion. I have no plan to become "champion" of any EIPs because that will mean I need to take a political stance. As a result, I'll be pulling EIP-1702 (account versioning) out of Berlin, unless someone else volunteers to champion it. ethereum/EIPs#2326

Regarding the specification -- I think we currently have a pretty good backward compatibility solution (via EIP-1702 account versioning, plus forward-compatible "versionless" EVM), which addresses most of the concerns since last discussion (maintenance cost, sustainability). If you want to know more, I'm pointing you to my devcon talk: https://twitter.com/sorpaas/status/1188611187413585920

[Souptacular]

Hey @pizza-r0b! ERC standards are not generally discussed in core developer meetings because core developer meetings deal with low-level protocol specifications.

[axic]

Merged the PRs to mark some of the Istanbul EIPs Final:

• Update EIP-1108 to reflect Final status EIPs#2295
• make eip 1884 final EIPs#2296
• Update EIP-152 to reflect Final status EIPs#2297

[timbeiko]

Closed in favor of #138