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# gsio-net Backlog
This document outlines the current tasks, planned features, known issues, and potential improvements for the GSIO-Net project. Items are prioritized based on their importance and alignment with the project's goals. Subject to change without notice.
## Current Pending Tasks
1. **User Personas Development** (Priority: High)
- ~~Hypothesize personas~~
- ~~Complete the PERSONAS_BLUEPRINT.md document with detailed user profiles (TinyTroupe)~~
- ~~Validate personas with stakeholders~~
- Run Tinytroupe on existing documentation
- ~~Finalize personas~~
2. **Project Documentation** (Priority: High)
- ~~Enhance README.md with comprehensive project description, architecture overview, and setup instructions~~
- Document existing Rust code
- Complete project document blueprints
- ~~[PROBLEM_STATEMENT_BLUEPRINT.md](project/PROBLEM_STATEMENT_BLUEPRINT.md)~~
- ~~[HUMAN_FACTORS_BLUEPRINT.md](project/HUMAN_FACTORS_BLUEPRINT.md)~~
- ~~[PERSONAS_BLUEPRINT.md](project/PERSONAS_BLUEPRINT.md)~~
- ~~[SECURITY_BLUEPRINT.md](project/SECURITY_BLUEPRINT.md)~~
- ~~[STORY_MAPPING_BLUEPRINT.md](project/STORY_MAPPING_BLUEPRINT.md)~~
- ~~[CRITIQUE.md](project/CRITIQUE.md)~~
### Trust & Provenance Backlog
1. **Ledger Persistence** (Priority: Critical)
- Implement persistent storage for ledger entries
- Add data recovery mechanisms
- Ensure data integrity across restarts
2. **Enhanced Validation** (Priority: High)
- Implement multi-signature validation for ledger entries
- Add cryptographic verification of entry content
- Create validation rules engine
3. **Audit Trail** (Priority: Medium)
- Implement comprehensive audit logging
- Create audit report generation
- Add tamper-evident audit trails
### Edge-Cloud Performance Backlog
1. **Advanced P2P Networking** (Priority: High)
- Complete Iroh integration for improved peer discovery
- Implement NAT traversal techniques
- Add bandwidth optimization for constrained environments
2. **Edge Optimization** (Priority: High)
- Implement local-first operations
- Add offline operation support
- Create intelligent sync strategies for intermittent connectivity
3. **Performance Monitoring** (Priority: Medium)
- Add comprehensive metrics collection
- Implement performance dashboards
- Create alerting for performance degradation
### Autonomous System Governance Backlog
1. **Consensus Mechanism** (Priority: Critical)
- Implement robust consensus algorithm
- Add conflict resolution strategies
- Create governance rules for network operation
2. **Explainable Operations** (Priority: High)
- Add operation tracing
- Implement decision logging
- Create visualization tools for system behavior
3. **Controlled Rollback** (Priority: Medium)
- Implement safe rollback mechanisms
- Add checkpoint system
- Create recovery procedures
### Regulatory Compliance Backlog
1. **Policy Engine** (Priority: High)
- Implement policy-as-code framework
- Add jurisdiction-aware rule processing
- Create compliance reporting tools
2. **Data Privacy** (Priority: High)
- Implement data encryption at rest and in transit
- Add access control mechanisms
- Create data minimization strategies
3. **Automated Reporting** (Priority: Medium)
- Implement report generation for compliance requirements
- Add scheduled reporting
- Create audit-ready data exports
### Human-System Integration Backlog
1. **Client Libraries** (Priority: High)
- Complete gsio-client implementation
- Add language-specific SDKs
- Create comprehensive client documentation
2. **Developer Tools** (Priority: Medium)
- Implement CLI tools for network interaction
- Add development environment setup scripts
- Create debugging and monitoring tools
3. **User Interfaces** (Priority: Medium)
- Implement admin dashboard
- Add visualization tools for network activity
- Create user-friendly client applications
## Critical Issue Backlog
1. **Ledger Implementation** (Priority: High)
- In-memory only storage lacks persistence
- Limited validation (only checks hash correctness)
- No conflict resolution mechanism
2. **P2P Networking** (Priority: High)
- Limited error handling and recovery
- No explicit security measures for node authentication
- Basic synchronization mechanism (full ledger sync)
3. **Relay Component** (Priority: Medium)
- Very basic implementation (echo server only)
- No integration with ledger or p2p components
- No security measures
- iroh ecosystem lock-in
## Improvements Backlog
1. **Architecture** (Priority: High)
- Create detailed architecture documentation
- Implement modular plugin system
- Add more service discovery mechanisms
2. **Testing** (Priority: High)
- Increase test coverage
- Add integration tests
- Implement performance benchmarks
3. **Security** (Priority: Critical)
- Conduct security audit
- Implement secure node authentication
- Add encryption for all communications
4. **Scalability** (Priority: Medium)
- Optimize for high-volume ledger operations
- Implement sharding for large networks
- Add load balancing for relay nodes
5. **Usability** (Priority: Medium)
- Improve error messages and handling
- Add comprehensive logging
- Create user-friendly documentation
## Roadmap
### Phase 1: Networking + Edge
- Ledger persistence implementation
- Enhanced validation
- Advanced P2P networking
- Edge optimization
### Phase 2: Autonomy + UX
- Consensus mechanism
- Explainable operations
- Client libraries
- Developer tools
### Phase 3: Regulation + Cohesion
- Policy engine
- Data privacy
- Automated reporting
- System integration and cohesion