Increased Canister Smart Contract Memory

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Hey Folks!

This project is our guinea pig project for what public roadmap projects will look like, and the next 7 days will have a lot of activity surrounding it.

  1. Today, August 25 - Community Conversation on Increased Canister Storage

  2. Thursday, August 26 - Draft proposal posted on the forum for review. We will post to the developer forum thread on the project a markdown doc (hosted on Github repo for NNS proposals) that explains the project design and intent so people can see what the project is about and how we intend to achieve the desired goal.

  3. Wednesday, Sep 1 - This is the nuanced part: I will submit to the NNS a proposal (without a binary that upgrades the IC) asking the wider IC community to vote on whether the Foundation and wider community should continue working, and ultimately deploy, the work for increasing smart contract canister storage. We are essentially using the NNS’s voting mechanisms to let the community express themselves.

  4. Friday, Sep 3 - NNS Proposal has a 48-hour expiration so the decision will be completed by then.

There will be two possible outcomes from this:

a. Proposal passes - if it passes, then the project team will submit an NNS proposal to actually upgrade the IC. In the case of Increased Canister Storage, this will happen relatively quickly since a lot of the groundwork had been done so the actual changes will be light. This is an exception. Many times in the future, if a proposal to “work on this version of the plan” passes, it may take weeks or months to have an implementation ready.

b. Proposal fails - I think this is very unlikely, but worth considering that this means the community does NOT want this change. In which case, we will not continue to work on this plan, but potentially go back to the drawing board and discuss it further with the community

Please note: in order to let the community truly express themselves, the DFINITY Foundation will vote as late as possible. We know lots of people’s neurons follow the DFINITY Foundation so we want to let the community time to breathe.

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