swarm roadmap

swarm roadmap

In brief we group the tasks under various tracks that roughly correspond to subpackages of the swarm codebase

• api
• network
• storage
• services
• examples
• testing
• documentation

The features and enhancements below will be prioritised and for the basis of the various POC sprints starting Q2 2016

Testing

Stages of network (testing)

• see that private network is working correctly
• see that the private network is working and benchmarking the influence of block propagation gives satisfying results
• an upgraded swarm on a private network is opened up for public participation
• the private test network with community gives us another order of magnitude bigger network to test on
• homestead-compatible swarm is joining the Morden testnet
• swarm integrated in Mist and allowed on the main net
• with POC 0.2 homestead-compatible on a toy testnet
• continue to expand and open to the public
• abstract network simulation framework using shadow

network

• scripted network tests, cluster control framework (to be obsoleted by eth/
• algorithmic improvements on chunker split/join
• algorithmic improvements on upload/download
• algorithmic improvements in kademlia and hive peers manager
• calibrating kademlia connectivity parameters to toynet scale
• adapt to felix's rpc-client-as-eth-backend scheme to run swarm as a separate daemon
• deliveries should not enter the sync pool - enhancement [#2046](https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum /issues/2046)
• smart peer propagation enhancement feature #2044
• IPFS integration: IPFS & SWARM feature #2050
• abstract out hive kademlia routing from protocol
• enhanced network monitoring, structured logging and stats aggregation
• unicast/multicast messaging over swarm - pss
• improved peer propagation #2044
• protocol stack abstraction, pluggable subprotocol components - (swap, hive/protocol, syncer, peers) for pss
• new p2p API integration - feature #2060

storage

• syncdb/netstore rewrite
• push on delete - feature #2045
• storage parametera setting API
• storage monitoring for Mist swarm dashboard
• integrate smash hash and swarm hash
• rewrite chunk size encoding
• basic masking - streaming-capable per-chunk encryption
• uri based masking (plausible deniability)
• Cauchy-Reed-Solomon erasure coding on chunker - see sw^3 - orange paper 1
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API

• bzz protocol should implement info for reporting - feature #2042
• chunker and document level API improvements
  • manifest support for CRS and Encryption
  • poor man's DRM and copyright protection
  • integrity checking API
  • swear registration API for Mist swarm dashboard
  • service management API for Mist swarm dashboard
• improved file system support
  • skeleton manifests #2437
  • file system watcher - dropbox backend API
• remove [BZZ] tag from logs swarm - enhancement #2345
• support for separate url schemes for dns enabled, immutable and raw manifest - feature #2279

services

• ENS, ethereum name service
  • ENS ERC by @Arachnid
  • swarm ENS - enhancement #2422
  • implementation for EIP-26
  • swarm namereg/natspec rewrite - enhancement #2048
• Incentives
  • improve swap accounting with debt swaps and liquidity check
  • implement storage insurance as per swap, swear and swindle incentive scheme
  • swear and swindle solidity contracts
  • smash proofing smash - orange paper 2 + solidity contract
  • automated audits with crash - collection-level recursive audit secret hash
  • throughput monitoring for improved peer ranking
  • price discovery and dynamic pricing
• sword
  • swarm DB support phase 0 - compact manifest trie and proof requests
  • SWarm On-demand Retrieval Daemon - feature #2049 = sword. ethereum state, contract storage, receipts, blocks on swarm

examples

• photo album
• file manager
• dropbox
• swatch
• git/github
• tubee