Telcoin

Telcoin Improvement Proposal (TIP)

The following section describes the context and procedure encompassed by the Telcoin Improvement Proposal process (TIP), the process used by the Platform Council to make platform-wide social rules.

TIP: Proposal Authors

  • Forum Proposal: Any registered member of the Telcoin forum may submit a TIP to the TIP forum channel for review by the community.
  • Platform Council: All Platform Council members holding a PCNFT, Telcoin Association Operations UAB (TAO) members or other designated authors as determined by the Miner Assembly may submit TIP proposals to the Platform Council snapshot for voting.
  • Veto: All Compliance Council members may submit TIP veto proposals.

TIP: Voters

  • Platform Council: All Platform Council members holding a PCNFT may vote on a TIP in the Platform Council snapshot.
  • Compliance Council: All Compliance Council members holding a CCNFT may vote to veto a TIP using the CCIP process.

TIP: Implementation units

  • Platform Council: Responsible for instructing, coordinating, or administering the implementation of new rules, procedures, improvements related to platform-wide facilities, communication channels, and governance infrastructure either internally or with third-parties.
  • Compliance Council: Responsible for instructing, coordinating, or administering new compliance and legal/organizational rules, procedures, and improvements.
  • TAO: At the request of the Platform Council, enforces rules, maintains and alters existing components, assists with the coordination of third parties to construct new facilities, and documents the outcome of TIP proposals on Telcoin.org.

TIP: Decision-making Rules and Authority

  • Councils | Representation | Process, Domain of Authority | Decision-making Rules
  • Platform Council | Platform Council
    · Members: 8
    · Representation: Balanced across all four Miner Groups. | Telcoin Improvement Proposal (TIP)

    Platform-wide rules
    including communication and information, compliance, legal and organizational rules. | Proposal Authority: Platform, Treasury, Compliance Councils, TAO

    Approval: 6 out of 8
    Quorum: 100%
    Duration: 120 hours
    Channel: telcoinplatformcouncil.eth
  • Compliance Council | Compliance Council
    · Members: 4
    · Representation: Balanced across all four Miner Groups. | Compliance Council Improvement Proposal (CCIP)

    Authority
    • Veto authority over all Miner Council proposals
    • Compliance,
    • Legal and Organizational,
    • Conflict Resolution,
    • Actor Authorizations | Proposal Authority: TAO, Compliance Council

    Approval: 3 out of 4
    Quorum: 75%
    Duration: 72 hours
    Channel: telcoincompliancecouncil.eth

TIP: Authority Rules

Authority

The TIP process may be used to approve and implement the following types of improvements.

  • Platform-wide Communication and Information Rules: Improvements that alter the communication and information rules for Councils including the scheduling, frequency, and roles of Council Members in periodic Miner Council meetings, Telcoin.org documentation and forum rules, and Telcoin Platform communication channels including Discord.
    • Examples:
      • Miner Council Meetings: The Platform Council decides to introduce a weekly Miner Council meeting to discuss proposals with the community every Wednesday in Discord.
      • Telcoin.org: The Platform Council decides to introduce new rules for the Telcoin forum.
      • Communication Channels: The Platform Council decides to migrate the primary Telcoin communication channel from Discord to Telegram.
  • Compliance, Legal, and Organizational Rules: Improvements to the Telcoin compliance regime, legal and organizational structures.
    • Example: The Compliance Council proposes a TIP which includes a set of compliance policies determining what jurisdictions are prohibited for Council Members to reside.
  • General-purpose: Any type of improvement that does not require financing deemed beneficial to Telcoin as determined by Miners and Miner Councils.

Forbidden Actions

Using the TIP process, the Platform Council is forbidden to:

  • Violate Telcoin’s mission, vision, values, and code of general conduct.
  • Submit and vote on proposals involving the:
    • TEL token contract and TEL Treasury inventory and systems,
    • Telcoin Network,
    • Governance Infrastructure,
    • Telcoin Association Constitution.

TIP Process and Outcomes

  1. TIP Forum Proposal: Forum members submit a proposal to TIP channel on the Telcoin forum.
  2. Platform Council Proposal: A Platform Council, TAO, or Compliance Council member decides to submits the proposal to the Platform Council Snapshot page.
  3. Platform Council Vote: The Platform Council must vote with 6/8 approval within 120 hours (5 days) from Platform Council snapshot proposal submission, or else the proposal will not pass.
    1. Approval Rate: 6/8
    2. Duration: 120 hours (5 days) If the proposal receives at least 6/8 approval within 5 days of submission, it is affirmed.
  4. Compliance Council Proposal: The Compliance Council may veto a TIP by submitting a veto proposal to the Compliance Council discord.
  5. Compliance Council Vote: The Compliance Council must vote to veto the proposal within 72 hours after it is approved by the Platform Council, or else the proposal will be approved.
    • Approval (Veto) Rate: 3/4
    • Duration: 72 hours (3 days)
  6. Implementation: The Platform Council either implements the proposal itself or works with the TAO or other third parties to implement the update.
  7. Documentation: The Proposal Author from the Platform Council coordinates with the TAO (or another administrator as determined by the Platform Council) to update Telcoin.org TIP documentation.

Outcomes and Feedback

  • Proposal Affirmed: If the proposal is affirmed through the TIP process, it will be implemented according to the specification outlined in the proposal.
  • Proposal Rejected: If the proposal is rejected by the Platform Council, the dissenting members must provide a rationale as to (1) why it failed to meet their decision-making criteria and (2) constructive feedback to help modify the proposal to meet the criteria provided in the rationale.
  • Proposal Vetoed: If the proposal is vetoed by the Compliance Council, the dissenting members must provide a rationale as to (1) why it failed to meet their decision-making criteria and (2) constructive feedback to help modify the proposal to meet the criteria provided in the rationale.

Evaluative Criteria

Consistency with Shared Values: Is the proposed improvement consistent with the the Mission, Vision, Values defined in Article 4.1 (a-c) of the Telcoin Association Constitution?

  • Overview: The Telcoin Association Constitution is a living, breathing document subject to indefinite adaptation by the Miner Assembly. The mission, vision, and values, collectively (’Mission’) found in Article 4.1(a, b, c) serves as a moral basis used by Miners to interpret and determine what actions and outcomes are acceptable in governance processes.

Feasibility: Technical, Economic, Financial, Legal, Political

  • Technical Feasibility: Can it be done? Is the potential course of action within the real of possibilities given existing knowledge and technical capabilities?
  • Economic Feasibility: Is it worth doing? Will the expected benefits to be derived from any course of action exceed the expected costs including the cost of other opportunities foregone? If this criterion can not be met, a course of action will leave people worse off than better off.
  • Financial Feasibility: Can sufficient revenues be generated with reference to a proposed course of action to cover expenditures?
  • Legal Feasibility: Is a proposed program of action lawful? Is the proposed program within the legal competence of an entrepreneur to undertake on his own authority?
  • Political Feasibility: Can the appropriate decisions be sustained?
Telcoin Improvement Proposal (TIP)