Governance System

Governance System

Rules-in-Use: Overview

Formal rules (e.g. legal and platform rules) and norms (e.g. Association values) that shape interactions with the Telcoin Platform and govern social interactions between Telcoin stakeholders.

Introduction: Rules-in-use

The Telcoin “rules-in-use” are the working rules for how Miners order their interactions with the Telcoin Platform and with each other in social processes. There are three levels of vertical, rule-ordered authority in the Telcoin governance system, including the operational, collective and constitutional-choice levels of analysis. The outcomes of choices made at higher levels of governance are rules that structure interactions at the lower levels.

Definition: Rules-in-use

Overview: Rules-in-use

  • Operational-choice Rules: The set of rules about everyday activities, directly involving the use of various resources related to the Telcoin Platform and day-to-day social interactions. These rules change frequently, and are determined by Miner Councils in collective-choice processes. Rules set includes:
  • Collective-choice Rules: Rules set used to change the operational-choice rules, including council member selection rules and miner council decision-making rules. These rules change at a slower pace, and are set in constitutional-choice processes by Miner Groups and the broader Miner Assembly.
  • Constitutional-choice Rules: Rules used to set the terms and conditions of governance, including the set of rules about how to change the collective-choice rules and about who occupies certain key positions at the collective-choice level. These rules change at the slowest pace, and are set and refined by the community based on their needs, viewpoints and traditions (which are articulated as "Values" in the Telcoin Association Constitution) that determine what kinds of rules at the lower levels are seen and accepted as legitimate. Rules include:
  • Meta-Constitutional Rules (”Association Values”): Moral intuitions, social norms, and traditions that determine what kinds of rules at the lower levels are seen and accepted as legitimate. The Telcoin Association Constitution, adopted and ratified by the community in TGIP1, articulates a Mission, Vision, and set of Values to serve as a guidepost for the community to ethically order its behavior towards a common cause, vision for the future, and set of moral standards. While the other levels of governance have sanctioning mechanisms in place, these do not.

    • Rules-in-use: Visualization

    Definitions

    Rules
    Rules: Vertical
    Rules: Horizontal