First off - i’m glad this is finally moving forward to public discussion. In general i believe it’s a good starting point. but there are 3 topic i feel need wider consensus.
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Eligibility criteria
how and who will determine eligibility? I strongly believe the criteria should detailed out and then council should entail a few people for each of the determined verticals or fields, so there is actually people evaluating proposals from ALL neccessary viewpoints and not jsut popularity contest/favour exchanges. It makes little difference if 5 or 20 KOLs with all social media/influencer skillset evaluate a smart contract based DEX proposal as they all can only evaluate from the “end user” perscpetive… For an example, we’ve seen this issue with some of the previous xgov iteratiosn when SCs had to be avaluated to determine deliverables and everyone was just “shrug”… -
Accountability
- Council members are publicly accountable for their decisions.
how is this enforced and what does the “publicly accountable” mean? If it’s jsut a “do better” then its pointelss. I suggest counsil don’t get paid anything during the term, and only get paid at the end of their1 year term - atleast in thsi case they don’t get paid to do malicious acts. While i’m sure most of the council will be honnest just assuminng good actors is bad pratice. I would even go as far as say coucil should pay something upfront to showcase their commitment and tehy get reimbrused at the end of their term ONLY if they did their job ok.
- AF involvment
I feel we need a VERY detailed outline of all and i literally mean all AF actions and invovment in the xgov process from the start to the finish. With clear and thought out examples written (e.g. user story for when there is a malicous actor, what and how AF participates). I’m sure if we pool community feedback together we can get many of such stories compiled very quickly… think of it like how precedent cases are used in courts/law. This will help council to their job better but it also prevents some absurd decisions made by AF in the earlier xgov iterations(ensuring stability and certainty for the proposers)