Mitigating NNS Power w/ Canister Data Exports

[diegop]

Moderator Note:

Yet again, I find myself having to remove comments, warn users, and close a thread.

As far as I can tell:

1. The actual relevant posts to answer @Hazel 's questions were addressed here (and those looking for relevant information):

@domwoe

Hey Hazel,

Good to see you here!

Providing platform support for snapshotting and exporting is something that was discussed during the last ICP.Lab on Storage and Scalability , and is something that DFINITY wants as well.

@domwoe

The minimum required on the protocol level is the ability to take snapshots of a canister when it is stopped, and forking from an existing snapshot. Besides that, it would be great to allow downloading and uploading the snapshots.

Maybe @dsarlis or @ulan can give an update on the state of these features.

Just FYI:
There’s also the recently released dfx deps feature, which makes it easier to provide and download wasm modules related to canisters, and there are ecosystem projects like LightIC which provide alternative implementations to run canisters outside the IC.

@dsarlis

The feature to provide snapshots and the ability to export/download those snapshots is in the early stages of discussion and exploring the scope. The relevant people are working on other items at the moment but it’s in the bucket of next features to pick up more actively. I don’t have a precise estimate to give now besides that we’re most likely looking at a couple of months at least before we have some results.

2. Everything else was just distraction, off topic, ad ad hominem messages removed.