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