ProbeLab 2023 Roadmap
Yiannis Psaras
About this talk
Yiannis Psaras walks through ProbeLab's planned 2023 measurement and protocol-improvement milestones for IPFS and libp2p. The roadmap covers quantifying whether Hydra boosters still add value, consolidating tools like the Nebula crawler and CID Hoarder into a continuous monitoring backend with a unified data lake and dashboards, revisiting the one-second Bitswap-before-DHT delay, finalizing new provider-record expiry and republish intervals, and integrating Thunderdome for automated regression testing of Kubo releases. Further items include shipping Optimistic Provide, replacing magic-number DHT timeouts with adaptive parameters, measuring hole-punching success rates via an opt-in user experiment, and rolling out double-hashing for DHT privacy with attention to the non-backward-compatible transition path. The session closes with GossipSub work focused on instrumenting Filecoin block propagation latency and verifying that the score-function-based mitigation strategies actually exclude misbehaving peers in production.