FOCIL Meeting #1 Minutes

[matthewkeil]

FOCIL Breakout Meeting #1

Date: December 13, 2024 @ 2pm UTC
Zoom: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89711946955?pwd%3D1LaWbbQbkVgAW7E6IeW1YwskuivUSp.1&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1734258054253936&usg=AOvVaw1KxemSj8rzZIdjf1e6paiz

Spec Stability

• CL spec is relatively stable
• EL spec will be formalized with a PR to EELS

Spec Questions

• Fork-Choice slot/block enforcement via proposer-boost reorging. This might/should need to be a separate EIP

Inclusions/Exclusions for First Round

• Blobs will not be included
• Maybe not verify IL's for first round of integration testing

Rough Timeline

• Shoot for first week of January for next meeting
• Hope that by that meeting we can have at least 1 CL and 1 EL ready to test with
• Shoot for attempting to set up a basic Kurtosis/Hive network between the first clients on the next call

Spec Test Goals

• Engage with Testing group to figure out timeline for work on spec tests

Active Branches

• Geth: https://github.com/jihoonsong/go-ethereum/tree/focil
• Lodestar: https://github.com/ChainSafe/lodestar/tree/focil

References Posted During Call

• https://meetfocil.eth.limo/
• https://notes.ethereum.org/@jacobkaufmann/Sy7sNHKVye
• https://hackmd.io/@jihoonsong/BJUVIsY4ye

Implementation Notes

Goal should be to keep discussion strictly in Discord and on the website https://meetfocil.eth.limo. Telegram and Twitter should be avoided to help corral the discussion to a single (or two) places.

There are two cases in the execution case. When sync'd and before sync. Should the CL be notifying the EL to check the IL's? This will be different cases for when syncing and after sync is complete. A PR will be opened to the spec to dial this in.

EL will look at specifying that if an IL is passed in then the IL should be checked, if not then the IL's will not need to be verified to check the block. Terrence requested for @Jihoon to open a pr here? https://github.com/ethereum/execution-apis/pulls

[matthewkeil]

I think i collected all of the links that were posted but there may be a few in the last chat messages that slipped by when the call ended