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+# Node.js Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Meeting 2021-10-06
+
+## Links
+
+* **Recording**:  <https://youtu.be/CYv575Bps9M>
+* **GitHub Issue**: <https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/1092>
+
+## Present
+
+* Antoine du Hamel @aduh95 (TSC)
+* Beth Griggs @BethGriggs (TSC)
+* Ruben Bridgewater @BridgeAR (TSC)
+* Сковорода Никита Андреевич @ChALkeR (TSC)
+* Colin Ihrig @cjihrig (TSC)
+* Danielle Adams @danielleadams (TSC)
+* Gireesh Punathil @gireeshpunathil (TSC)
+* Matteo Collina @mcollina (TSC)
+* Michael Dawson @mhdawson (TSC)
+* Myles Borins @MylesBorins (TSC)
+* Michaël Zasso @targos (TSC)
+* Rich Trott @Trott (TSC)
+* Bradley Farias @bmeck (Guest)
+* Jordan Harband @ljharb (Guest)
+
+## Agenda
+
+### Announcements
+
+* 17.0.0 coming this month, 16.x goes LTS
+* NodeConf on in 2 weeks
+* Security release next week
+
+### CPC and Board Meeting Updates
+
+* No board meeting update this week
+* No update this week, no CPC meeting this week.
+
+*Extracted from **tsc-agenda** labeled issues and pull requests from the **nodejs org** prior to the meeting.
+
+### nodejs/node
+
+* doc: add initial list of technical priorities [#40235](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/40235)
+  * Michael FYI to TSC, please review, comments.
+
+* Replace OpenSSL 1.1.1 with OpenSSL 3.0.0 [#40106](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/40106)
+* deps: update openssl to quictls/openssl 3.0.0+quic (wip) [#38512](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/38512)
+  * No concerns/objections from those in the meeting today?
+
+* module: unflag import assertions [#39921](https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/39921)
+  * Antoine - going to be discussed in next loaders meeting, if goes well don’t need input
+    from TSC.
+
+* Rename default branch from "master" to "main" [#33864](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/33864)
+  * a few more moved over, some discussion on how we address the core repo.
+
+* Migration of core modules to primordials [#30697](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/30697)
+* Bradley
+  * Different arguments on why/purpose
+  * From my perspective primordials are not the goal, but they are a technique for making parts
+    of Node.js more robust in the face of tampering
+  * For most environments, the loading mechanism, the part that puts code into executable
+    space is protected. Often done by signing/integrity checks.  It’s about knowing when you load
+    code off disk, people have not tampered with that file
+  * Primordials make contribution extremely difficult to node core.
+  * Would be easier if we ported parts off of core off our own “dialect” would be good to port in
+    way that is not subject to pollution.  Before primordials we used safe globals
+  * If we defined defensible parts of node core and then restricted it to just that it would help
+    enabling contributors.
+  * Gireesh, what do you think the impact would be on performance?
+  * Personally don’t think that performance needs to be great when it’s enabled
+  * Matteo, why is it ok for loading things be slow?
+  * Bradley should not slow it down from where it is now
+  * Slow part is integrity checks, opt in
+  * Primordials, we have seen perf challenges, cannot easily make 2 paths.
+  * Ruben, transpiling of code to make opt-in,
+  * Bradley, many large projects tried that but were not successful, so don’t think it will work
+  * Recommendation
+  * Move parts of core out of JavaScript(C/C++, WASM, something else?) mark those as defensible parts
+    * CommonJS loader, not filesystem, not path lookup
+    * ESM Loader (already pretty good)
+    * Policy Mechanism
+    * Http or remote code loading.
+    * Matteo that would pull in all core
+    * Bradley if you run on separate thread then ok
+  * Move the rest back to regular JavaScript
+  * Should not change bar for contributing for this part as already high, by doing this we could improve for the other areas.
+* Jordan
+  * Strange if I can trivially break unrelated code. For example if I delete builtins in Node.js lots of
+    things will fail. Feels strange that platform is brittle in this way. Discovered by testing built-ins
+  * More concrete topic is mechanism that it makes it self robust. The current approach (because
+    no solution language) is not ergonomic and V8 does not optimize.
+  * No attachment to current approach, but don’t know of a better one.
+  * TC39 bind proposal might help us avoid the performance cliffs that we are seeing
+  * The questions that have been discussed in the primordials calls have been
+    * stop
+    * do at all costs
+    * do some carefully
+    * just do module loading paths, but hard as it uses other parts of Node.js
+  * My proposal would be to
+    * continue to harden against this tampering
+    * work on specific cases where there is a performance cliff
+    * Prioritize robustness and compromise when necessary
+  * Matteo
+    * One additional impact, JEST for example does work in some cases because of the
+      primordials. By removing the functionality it does have an impact
+    * GraphQL module does instanceof, using in JEST.
+    * Michael Z, problem with JEST is because they run in a vm, that is what causes the problem
+    * Bradley, TC39 does have a terms for the things you cannot replace globally.  “Undeniables”.
+      Trying to state that it is safe to replace globals, it is not true based on TC39
+  * Antoine - new TC39 bind proposal does this change anything for our case (<https://github.com/js-choi/proposal-bind-this-operator>)
+  * Bradley, still think it would still be a specific odd dialect of JavaScript.
+
+### nodejs/TSC
+
+* To be or not to be in core [#1041](https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/issues/1041)
+  * Rich, last week agreed to try to consolidate into into pull request
+    * <https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/40338>
+  * Michael one comment is whether it should be limited for any functionality.
+  * Matteo agreed should be more general
+## Strategic Initiatives
+
+* Core Promise APIs no update
+* V8 Currency
+  * V8 version 9.4 should be updated today,
+  * PR to update to 9.5, hope we can get into 17.x, but there are issues with compilation on
+     windows, but not sure if it will be in time.
+
+## Upcoming Meetings
+
+* **Node.js Foundation Calendar**: <https://nodejs.org/calendar>
+
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