DRep Gov Jury Duty

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Rhys Morgan

[GENERAL] Email address of main applicant

catalystburneremail@gmail.com

Additional applicants

tba

[GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

3

[GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language.

No

[GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

Yes

[GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.”

IOG, Cardano Foundation, for implementing this solution

[GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

Yes

[GENERAL] If NO, please describe which outputs are not going to be open source. If YES, please write “Project will be fully open source.”

Project will be fully open source

[METADATA] Category of proposal

Other

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

We suggest having a randomised set of DReps required to take part in oversight of project reporting for Cardanos overarching governance model in the age of Voltaire.

this will work like jury duty, where random dreps will be assigned to oversee the development of projects at each milestone stage of their implementation.

This will help develop accountability for projects and proposals funded through on-chain governance and will enable a selection of domain experts to review the output of proposals through each stage.

This will be randomly assigned and done at every stage to help mitigate the potential for bribery and manipulation by projects, as well as enable projects to request a second review from a different (randomly selected) committee of dreps if felt that the initial review is unfair.

[IMPACT] How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?

Ultimately the community need to make sure proposals that do get funded are providing those solutions, the potential for lots of funds to disappear because of voting manipulation in any form is a real risk of fully open community governance.

Giving Dreps the role of managing and overseeing funded proposals will add an extra layer of security and reason for dreps to contribute further towards the process of on-chain governance.

This will help the community weed out unavailable dreps or potentially malicious ones, but it will also create a great early stage and continuing feedback loop for funded proposals, to ensure work is being done.

[IMPACT] How do you intend to measure the success of your project?

the formation of a Drep jury duty or some other similar system of oversight along these lines.

[IMPACT] Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?

We will share the output of these results through documentation, reporting of conversations with domain experts and discussing these concepts and how they can be improved and implemented effectively

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?

I have been heavily involved in Catalyst since its inception. I have been a circle member, proposer, assessor and now challenge team lead. I have taken part in many governance conversations, including several CIP1694 calls and workshops, and during that time I have thought a lot about (and experienced) the need for managing funded projects and proposals. The same as in catalyst also goes for the greater ecosystem.

I will work through this proposal openly with the cardano community reporting on events, discussions and developments as they happen, and I will remain open to suggestions of improvements and ideas throughout the process.

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?

the main goal is to set up dreps to have a required service they need to take, aptly named jury duty, for the sake of the greater cardano community to keep track of proposals that they fund through CIP1694 governance.

having done workshops and discussions recently it is clear that the process is still undergoing improvements and is open to suggestions from the community, so it is more than feasible that this proposal will achieve its goal

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.

1. write up of the mechanisms and random selection of dreps to do this role
2. discussions on CIP boards about this proposed solution and how it can be improved or iterated upon
3. talks with the CIP project leads about implementing this solution
4. implementing the solution

[CAPABILITY/ FEASIBILITY] Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.

1. Write up of the process

2 contact the CIP & Gov teams of groups involved to set up calls to discuss this proposal

3, iterate and improve on the suggested mechanism

4, implement it into the CIP and establish it as a process for Dreps

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

the budget is purely to cover my time costs in following through on the proposal,

writing up the process, organising & coordinating times and scheduling/participating in calls,

iterating upon the document of proposal

documenting the process and sharing it with the community

an implementing the solution

[RESOURCES & VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

If this is implemented it will give a clear method of community oversight to the Cardano community, a way for them to trust that proposals they funded with the treasury are being worked on and are moving towards completion. This is exponentially more valuable than this proposal as it will help move the ecosystem forward and will add an important role to on chain governance

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agreed to Fund10 rules and also that data in the Submission Form and other data provided by the project team during the course of the project will be publicly available.

I Accept