Protocol stewardship and improvements — IPFS/2025

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Protocol stewardship and improvements

This includes:
Stewarding the IPIP process
Regular public specs and/or implementers calls
Updating / fixing specification issues as they come up
New specifications (e.g. webseeds, enhancements to the trustless gateway spec)

ETA

Q1-Q4

Expected impact

Standardized IPFS implementations, API endpoints, and other interfaces

Progress reporting

Q1

• The team is participating in regular community calls around specs and governance;
  • IPFS Steering & Friends
  • IPFS Protocol WG
  • IPFS Public Utilities WG
  • CID Congress
  • Igalia Coordination Calls
  • etc.
• Spec work
  • Documented current state: IPFS Kademlia DHT specification (in review)
    • Proposed IPIP-501: Amino DHT HTTP Trustless Gateway compatible Provider Records
  • Revisited UnixFS spec, documented remaining work
  • Researched and documented current defaults for Kubo, Helia inregards to IPIP 0499: CID Profiles
  • Gateway spec clarifications: PSL best practices, redirect handling, query parameters, peerid auth optionality, probing path
  • IPNS: default TTL adjustment (+ updating GO and JS implementations)

Q2

• Fill implementation gap to allow Kubo support for IPIP-0449: feat(config): ipfs add and Import options for controling UnixFS DAG Width ipfs/kubo#10774
• docs: add paragraph describing HAMT fanout limit ipfs/specs#507 (closed)
• wip: testing triggering build-and-deply on workflow_run ipfs/specs#506 (closed)
• docs: fix missing asset ipfs/specs#505 (closed)
• IPIP-504: provider query parameter as hint for HTTP Gateways ipfs/specs#504 (under discussion)
• fix: typo in IMPORTERS_EXPORTERS.md ipfs/specs#503 (merged)
• ci: uci/copy-templates ipfs/specs#502 (merged)
• IPIP-501: Amino DHT HTTP Trustless Gateway compatible Provider Records ipfs/specs#501 (under discussion)
• subdomain gateway: clarify PSL and eTLD best practices ipfs/specs#500 (merged)
• IPIP-499: UnixFS CID Profiles ipfs/specs#499 (under discussion)

Q3

• IPIP-513: Delegated Routing V1 returns 200 for empty results ipfs/specs#513 (under discussion)
• IPIP-512: Limit Identity CID Size to 128 Bytes in UnixFS Contexts ipfs/specs#512 (merged)
• fix: move pages deployment to deploy workflow ipfs/specs#511 (merged)
• ci: deploy fork prs ipfs/specs#510 (merged)

Q4

PRs

• IPIP-0524: Remove IPLD translation from IPFS HTTP Gateway ipfs/specs#524 (open)
• IPIP-0523: Prefer format request param over Accept header ipfs/specs#523 (open)
• docs(trustless-gateway): Add p2p usage section ipfs/specs#520 (open)
• IPIP-518: HTTP(S) URLs in Routing V1 API ipfs/specs#518 (open)
• docs(trustless): clarify streaming gateway behavior & response headers ipfs/specs#517 (merged)
• fix(ipns): missing xref ipfs/specs#515 (merged)

Issues

• Range header cannot be used by browsers ipfs/specs#525 (open)
• DAG-CBOR/CBOR vs DAG-JSON/JSON format inconsistencies ipfs/specs#522 (closed)
• Trustless Gateway format parameter should take priority over accept header? ipfs/specs#521 (open)
• Gateway spec: add a "p2p" section ipfs/specs#519 (open)
• website: broken references ipfs/specs#516 (closed)