Governance System

Governance System

Telcoin Improvement Proposal (TIP) Rules

The process used by the Platform Council to set, enforce, and refine platform-wide social policies.

TIP Rules

CouncilsRepresentationProcess, Domain of AuthorityDecision-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

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.

    • 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 on a TIP veto proposal.

    • 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: Choice Rules

    Permitted Actions

    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: Decision-making Rules

    Proposal Rules

  • TIP Forum Proposal: Anyone may submit a prospective TIP for review to the TIP Telcoin forum channel.
  • Platform Council Proposal: Platform Council members, TAO members, and any other designated author on the Platform Council snapshot may submit TIP proposals to the Platform Council snapshot for voting.
    • Requirements: Must properly codify the TIP proposal in chronological order.
      • Example: The first TIP proposal should be coded as [TIP1].
  • Compliance Council Proposal: Within 72 hours after the Platform Council affirms a TIP, the Compliance Council may submit a veto proposal to the Compliance Council discord channel and vote to veto the TIP.

    • Voting Rules

  • Platform Council Voting: The Platform Council must vote with 6/8 approval within 120 hours (5 days) from snapshot proposal submission, or else the proposal will not pass.
    • Approval Rate: 6/8
    • Duration: 120 hours (5 days)
    • Outcomes
      • Approved: The proposal will submit to the Compliance Council for review.
      • Rejected: Council members who vote against a proposal or abstain must provide a rationale and changes that would be needed to pass a proposal.
  • Compliance Council Veto The Compliance Council may veto a TIP by submitting a veto proposal to the Compliance Council discord and voting with a super-majority of 3/4 members within 72 hours from TIP approval, or else the proposal will be affirmed, implemented, and documented.
    • Approval (Veto) Rate: 3/4
    • Duration: 72 hours (3 days)
    • Outcomes
      • Veto: The proposal will be veto’d and the TIP author must incorporate feedback from the Compliance Council to the TIP and submit it for voting again. Compliance Council members who voted to veto the proposal must provide their rationale and constructive feedback at the time of the vote.
      • No Veto: If the Compliance Council fails to veto a proposal, it will be affirmed, implemented, and documented.

    • TIP: Implementation, Documentation, Communication Rules

    Implementation Rules

  • The Platform Council and/or Compliance Council work within their organizations and externally with third parties such as the TAO and other firms to implement the proposal as outlined in the implementation section of the TIP.

    • Documentation Rules

  • The proposal author is required to document the proposal in Telcoin.org by updating the forum post and adding the affirmed proposal to the TIP documentation section chronologically.

    • Communication Rules

  • The proposal author must share the the link to the proposal to the TIP updates section of the Telcoin discord after submitting it the Platform Council, after it is affirmed or rejected by the Platform Council, and after it is either vetoed or not by the Compliance Council.

    • Information, Communication, Governance Channels

  • Forum Channel:
  • TIP History:
  • Communications Channel: Telcoin Discord, TIP Updates
  • Platform Council Snapshot: https://snapshot.org/#/telcoinplatformcouncil.eth
  • Compliance Council Snapshot: https://snapshot.org/#/telcoincompliancecouncil.eth

    • TIP: Process

  • TIP Forum Proposal: Forum members submit a proposal to TIP channel on the Telcoin forum.
  • Platform Council Proposal: A Platform Council, TAO, or Compliance Council member decides to submits the proposal to the Platform Council Snapshot page.
  • 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.
    • Approval Rate: 6/8
    • Duration: 120 hours (5 days) If the proposal receives at least 6/8 approval within 5 days of submission, it is affirmed.
  • Compliance Council Proposal: The Compliance Council may veto a TIP by submitting a veto proposal to the Compliance Council discord.
  • 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)
  • Implementation: The Platform Council either implements the proposal itself or works with the TAO or other third parties to implement the update.
  • 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.

    • TIP: Proposal Template

  • Abstract
  • Specification
  • Implementation