I want to draw attention to an important section of this blog post, which I’m reproducing here:
Finally, we believe that there should be two more criteria for ZCAP membership:
organizations and individuals who have made a meaningful contribution to the success of Zcash, and
organizations and individuals whose membership of ZCAP would make it more independent and representative of the Zcash community.
However, neither of these criteria are objective. Therefore, we propose that ZF and ECC work together to establish a protocol to make it possible to use these two criteria. Specifically, we propose that:
We invite nominations from the Zcash community (via the forum) for organizations and individuals who may meet these criteria. Additionally, ZF or ECC may accept nominations via other channels they deem appropriate, and post them to the forum (so that the community can provide feedback).
The deadline for nominations shall be 09:00 UTC on Monday June 6, 2022.
After this deadline, ZF and ECC shall review the nominations, and indicate to one another whether they agree with or object to each nomination.
If both organizations agree with the nomination, the nominee will be added to ZCAP.
If both organizations object to the nomination, the nominee will be rejected.
If one organization agrees with the nomination, and the other organization objects, the decision will be escalated to a vote of the ZF and Bootstrap Project’s board members (with votes weighted appropriately – e.g. each ZF board member’s vote counts as 1, while each ECC board member’s vote counts as 1.2).
In the event of a tied vote, the ZF and Bootstrap Project’s boards may jointly select (using the weighted voting mechanism described above) an independent arbiter to decide whether the nominee should be added to ZCAP.
If the boards cannot agree on an independent arbiter, the question of whether the nominee should be added to ZCAP will be added to the next ZCAP poll.
We also propose that a similar protocol be used to remove ZCAP members whose interests are not aligned with the Zcash community’s, or whose membership of ZCAP is otherwise inimical to its purpose. Specifically, we propose that:
Either ZF or ECC may raise the question of whether an existing member of ZCAP should be removed.
If both organizations agree to the removal, the member will be removed.
If both organizations object to the removal, the member will remain on ZCAP.
If the organizations disagree, the matter will be escalated as described above (i.e. first to the ZF and Bootstrap boards, then to an independent arbiter or to ZCAP itself).
I have today sent an email to ECC formally inviting them to participate in the process as described above.