Proposals

All proposals can be found over on the Forum here.

If accepted and it meets all required criteria and no objection via the discussion forum has been made, it will be moved over to

active and will be made votable on homebase.

Social Proposals

A social proposal lets the DAO vote on a wide range of things. These might include but are not limited to requests for new features (as long as they don’t require additional budget) or changes in the Discourse Governance Forum’s Structure and Rules.

Examples:

Request for Action

A Request for Action proposal requires delegates to at least hit 10% quorum along with 50%+ Yes/Positive votes for said proposal.

Examples:

Constitutional Amendment

All Constitutional Amendments are required to have a minimum of 14 days to vote duration, along with two-thirds of Yes votes and a quorum of 20% of all votes (TEDv) in current circulation.

No Examples of Constitutional Amendment can be given currently.

How to create a proposal?

Templates

Templates for creating a proposal is available here.

Restrictions

There are no restrictions on what you can propose for the TED DAO, however it would need to be well made and lines up with values and creation of a better experience for the end users or DAO participant as stated in the Constitution.

Help from The SoG

The SoG will help you with any issues and provide guidance where possible. The CM team can also help in certain situations so you are more than welcome to reach out.

Off-Chain Minor Changes

Some minor changes will be made after a vote via social media such as Discord or via X. Along with internal discussions via the main DAO Reps (CM, SoG and Marketing) and The Tezos Domains Core Team.

Examples below:

Proposal Stages

To make sure that the community has a good understanding of each proposal when the time to vote comes, there are several stages that a proposal has to go through:

1. DRAFT: Proposals start in the DRAFT stage in which they are open to feedback from the community. The proposal author may be asked by the Steward of Governance to refine and clarify the proposal before it can be moved to the ACTIVE stage. DRAFT Proposals will be in this stage for at least 1 week (7 days) so the DAO can get around to reading and discussing. DRAFT Proposals are not able to be conflicting with ACTIVE OR ACCEPTED Proposals. DRAFT Proposals may be conflicting with EXECUTED Proposals depending on what the proposed changes are. Some changes may not be able to be regressed. Examples of Conflicting Proposals that will be accepted; price changes, Tezos Domains Application changes*.
2. ACTIVE: A proposal in the active stage can be voted on.
3. ACCEPTED/REJECTED: Proposals that have ended their voting period are marked as accepted or rejected by the Steward of Governance. Accepted proposals can then be acted on, as defined by the Constitution.
4. CANCELED: A proposal author may decide to cancel a proposal still in the DRAFT stage. The Steward of Governance has the authority to cancel a proposal in the DRAFT stage in case of the lack of cooperation (or inactivity) from the author of the proposal, but not earlier than 7 days from submission.
5. EXECUTED: A proposal that has been completed/implemented.

The current stage of each proposal is reflected in the title of its topic.

Moving a proposal from DRAFT to ACTIVE

For a proposal to be ready to move from the DRAFT to the ACTIVE stage, it must meet the following criteria:

• The proposal has a clear title.
• The proposal lists all its categories (one at minimum).
• The proposal specifies a valid voting period in days (7-30 days for regular proposals; 14-30 days for constitution amendments).
• The proposal has an abstract that describes the proposal clearly and in plain speech. A good abstract is short and to the point, but without missing key information.
• The text contains a rationale for the proposal.
• Requests for Action must have a precisely defined specification defining the proposed actions.
• Example of a well-defined action: TLDRegistrar configuration is updated to increase the yearly registration fee of 5+ letter domains from 1 tez to 2 tez.
• Example of a poorly defined action: Tezos Domains smart contracts should start giving TED rewards for holding a domain (clearly missing important information about amounts and reward structure; action item like this needs more refinement).
• If the proposal is a Executable Change or Project, there must be a timeline and estimated date of completion under the section of Specification
• The proposal must not be conflicting a ACTIVE or ACCEPTED proposal.
• Constitution amendments must contain the proposed new text of the Constitution in full.
• A well-formed proposal should be free of unnecessary clutter. Remember that concise format and precise language are key for motivating voters to participate and vote on your proposal.

Once the proposal meets the listed criteria, the Steward of Governance is free to notify the author and mark the proposal as ACTIVE. The Steward of Governance can exercise their own discretion when deciding if a proposal needs more refinement before moving to the ACTIVE stage.

Voting on an ACTIVE proposal

After moving a proposal to the ACTIVE stage, the Steward of Governance will create a corresponding proposal in Homebase and thus start the voting period.

The Homebase proposal will include:

1. The full abstract.
2. Link to the corresponding topic in the governance forum.
3. Three voting options:
• “Yes” representing a vote in favor,
• “No”, representing a vote against, and
• “Abstain”, a vote that represents neither and (in case of regular proposals) doesn’t count towards the total tally, but it does count towards the quorum.(Some voting options may differ, depending on what the vote is for.)The Steward of Governance will then update the proposal text to include a link back to Homebase so the proposal can be voted on by DAO members.

IMPORTANT: All Homebase proposals that are not properly linked from an active proposal will be disregarded by the DAO.

Moving a proposal from ACTIVE to ACCEPTED/REJECTED

After the voting period is over, the Steward of Governance officially moves the proposal to one of the two stages:

• ACCEPTED if the proposal meets the acceptance criteria, or
• REJECTED if it doesn’t.

Accepted proposals are then acted on, as specified by the constitution.

Moving a proposal from ACCEPTED to EXECUTED

After a proposal has been completed after ACCEPTED, the status changes to EXECUTED.

Proposal Time-Line

If the Proposal is a Request for Action or a Constitution Amendment, there must be a timeline from proposal start to proposal end. For Example: Price Change Proposal.

If for whatever reason you run into issues during the last stage of Execution, you will have to put a comment under the Proposal on the forum with Time-Line Extension needed and specify how long. You are able to do this 2 times. Each extension cannot exceed a month in time.

01/12/2024 - Proposal Draft

(7 days later) 07/12/2024 - 14/12/2024 Proposal Active

(7 days later) 14/12/2024 - Proposal Outcome Confirmation. (Changes to ACCEPTED or REJECTED)

(7 days)14/12/2024 - 21/12/2024 - Execution Planning/Preparation Stage (if ACCEPTED)

21/12/2024 - 01/12/2024 During this time-frame, the Proposal Changes will be Executed. (if ACCEPTED)

• This is just an example on how the timeline should look.

LAST UPDATED: 13:36 GMT, 01/12/2024