Hi all,
I just participated in a great session of the governance working group and would like to share my key take-aways:
Discussion on proposal for Ethos
- Many kudos to @aiv & @Arthur for preparing today’s session very well in a preceding sub-group, providing a concrete write-up ! This made the meeting very efficient and focused.
- Ethos is meant to provide decision-making principles which should be approved by the NNS.These principles (the interpretation of which may differ) are not enforceable.
- The principles could be used to communicate to new-joiners how the platform intends to evolve.
- There was a discussion on concrete suggestions for these principles, e.g. mutability vs immutability of the tokenomics of the system (with varying opinions in the room).
- We also discussed the trade-offs between formulating soft principles vs concrete tech-based suggestions to the protocol.
My (not DFINITY’s) initial thoughts on this
- I very much like that principles could be used to explain to outsiders how the community ticks and how the NNS/IC could evolve.
- I could imagine that these kinds of principles could also be formulated by known neurons, facilitating the choice of whom to follow. In particular we could also have a competition of contrasting principles. This would also require that we foster a much more active process for choosing known neurons.
- With respect to turning Ethos into a proposal: In my opinion we should try to clarify beforehand what is in scope of being a NNS proposal. I am personally in favor of a narrow scope, where NNS proposals are about concrete changes to the NNS protocol (or at least motion-like intentions on introducing certain features). From that perspective, guiding principles would not be in scope of NNS voting.
Future process of the governance working group
- Kudos to @lastmjs for preparing and presenting this point well!
- It is suggested to follow the following open process.
- Governance working group meetings are scheduled ad-hoc.
- Sub-groups review a particular topic and prepare a concrete suggestion.
- The according lead(s) of a sub-group propose a slot (day & time) for the next governance working group.
- For documentation sharing, we will experiment with using google docs and github and subgroups will pick what works best for them.