Thanks @Coltron.eth for your feedback and for taking the suggestions into consideration.
It’s great to hear that the committee will review past work. The review of past work and ENS context more broadly will be key to the committee achieving the best outcomes with SPP3.
There’s a lot of context here. The committee needs to do its best to deeply understand the work the DAO is already funding, the organizations doing it, and the outcomes that work is producing. Selection follows from that understanding.
Worth thinking through what makes that review substantive enough to be useful. Two components seem non-negotiable for any SPP committee:
- Structured conversations with each current SPP team, both to understand outcomes in context and to gather input that informs SPP3 selection criteria. These interviews would be focused exclusively on the past work with these past / current service providers who are planning to apply for SPP3. This is a distinct interview from the SPP3 application interview which would then be focused on proposed future work.
- A published written assessment from the committee summarizing findings across the SPP2 cohort. This gives the DAO a document to reference next cycle, supports any future SP program design decisions, and signals that accountability work was done, not just considered.
Both take real time, likely 2-3 weeks of focused committee effort.
Good to hear how continuity is a key goal. We share this goal. However flagging how SPP2 1-year streams do not end in May. What ends on May 25th is the SPP2 Q4 Scope of Work. For the transition from SPP2 to any successor program, the ENS DAO has already approved and funded a 3-month allowance period on all SPP2 streams beyond their contracted Scope of Work. This was already ratified in EP6.13. The allowance of SPP2 1-year streams is not exhausted until Aug 26.
Therefore, for continuity what’s important is to have SPP3 outcomes clarified before Aug 26. In the timeline suggestions I shared above is a detailed proposal for how all the key steps in the process can very elegantly be scheduled and completed. This includes achieving all the clarity on SPP3 outcomes by July 24th, more than a month before any continuity might be at risk.
Additionally flagging how it won’t be appropriate for the time period allocated for the building of SPP3 applications to commence until after the SPP2 Q2 Scope of Work and related SPP2 Q4 Quarterly reports are complete.
Our team is working on the bleeding edge of ENSv2 development on key infrastructure for the launch of ENSv2, working in tandem with the ENS Labs team to support. The DAO has already approved this scope of work and its associated funding for SPP2 and we consider ourselves as under contract for shipping the related deliverables before the end of SPP2 Q4. We are pushing hard with sleepless nights to keep everything here on track as is already committed to on contract.
Please note how it will be a significant undertaking (and interruption in the regular work of each current SPP2 1-year provider) for each applicant who wishes to apply for SPP3 to prepare their SPP3 application.
It’s very important that the work on SPP3 applications only begins after SPP2 Q4 and the associated SPP2 Q4 quarterly reports are prepared and submitted. Otherwise it significantly disrupts existing work under contract with ENS.
Great. Echoing once again the importance of the SPP3 budget methodology taking into consideration ENS DAO revenues (which includes DeFi returns) and not only ENS protocol revenues, which doesn’t.
If DeFi returns are not for the purpose of being invested into the growth of ENS then what are they for?
Thanks again for all the efforts going into leading the organization of this. Appreciate it is a big lift!