Megathread: Community Submissions for DFINITY Foundation’s Roadmap

[Fulco]

I have seen at least two threads about opening up more information from canisters to other canisters.

Canister controller and cycle balance need to be public (10 likes in this thread)

and here as well:

Getting a Canister's Controller On-Chain

TL;DR We want to allow a canister to query the status of another canister on mainnet, without being the controller. This will allow for an on-chain way of verifying that someone owns the canister they say they own. The Current Way to Get a Canister’s Status / Controller On Chain You cannot make a call to whatever canister you’d like to, to get that canister’s list of controllers. The only way you can do this is in DFX, by running: dfx canister --network=ic --no-wallet status <canister-id> I…

would love to see this considered. It is especially important if you are doing something with DAO’s like I am currently