The below response reflects the views of L2Beat’s governance team, composed of @kaereste and @Sinkas, and it’s based on the combined research, fact-checking and ideation of the two.
We’ll be voting in favor of this proposal as it’s imperative that the implementation, and security audits are completed. We are understanding of the time required to execute such actions, of the fact that complications can and often do arise, and that extensive checks are required to ensure airtight implementation.
However, we also feel we’re responsible for addressing some issues that we found with the proposed amendments. We believe that the following should be addressed.
Timeline
The Constitution had 15th of September as a fixed date for the start of the elections for the Security Council, while the proposed amendment is to start the elections on 15th of September, or the earliest possible date after September 15th.
We believe that “the earliest possible date” is too vague, and although we do understand the need to be flexible, we’re curious to know what is a reasonably expected timeline for the completion of security audit and implementation of the contracts?
We’d like the Foundation to provide the DAO with regular status updates on the progress of the implementation so that we can be sure we’re on track and the process isn’t going to take an unreasonable amount of time to be completed.
Future Election Start Date
The proposed revisioned text states that:
Every election will begin exactly 6 months after the previous election has finished and it will replace its respective cohort of 6 members
Since the election process will take 55 days from election to implementation (as outlined in the proposed implementation spec), we think the start of future elections should be 6 months after the previous election has started. In that way, the elections will be finished and the new cohort will be ready to be installed just as the term of the running cohort has finished.
Therefore, this is the proposed revised text:
Every election will begin exactly 6 months after the previous election has started and it will replace its respective cohort of 6 members.
We’d appreciate the input on the above points from the Foundation, and we urge other delegates to also raise any concerns, should they believe something requires further clarification.
EDIT: Due to the technical issue on our side we cannot cast a vote for the snapshot temperature check. This issue will be resolved in a few days though and we will be voting in the on-chain vote.