My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: Developer DAO is a diverse community of software developers learning, teaching, and contributing to public goods and the future of Web3. By serving as a delegate to ENS, Developer DAO will represent the voices of a wide range of technical backgrounds and experiences from across the globe.
My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution:
Name ownership shall not be infringed: Agree
Fees are primarily an incentive mechanism: Agree
Income funds ENS and other public goods: Agree
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: Agree
My web3 qualifications / skills:
Developer DAO is made up of a cross section of Web3 users and builders. Approaching 3000 members, the DAO includes protocol foundation team members, Web3 Founders, major open-source project maintainers, Web2 community leaders, and many more talented and passionate people excited by learning about, and building on Web3 technologies.
I hold a strong conviction that decentralized governance will elevate our human society to the next level of civilization.
Effective decentralized governance requires active participation from broad base. Effective delegation requires delegates capable of dedicating time and passion as well as connecting to their respective bases. I believe Iām a great representative for underprivileged people and software engineers as I grew up from a harsh childhood life to become software engineers for years. Crypto and Web3 brought me financial independence, allowing me allocate more time to contribute back to the community.
Name ownership is an absolute right: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree.
Iām open to some exception where constitution amend level voting majority can decide to acquire an ENS from its current owner with market based compensation and for public goods.
Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree.
Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree.
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree.
Amendments to this constitution by majority vote
Suggest a threshold of 2/3 majority and at least 10% of all token participation.
My web3 qualifications / skills:
Years of software engineering and entrepreneurial experience.
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: Iām fascinated by the Ethereum ecosystem and Iām interested in opportunities (especially for language) that might come up in the future.
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:I like ens, I am optimistic about it, and the future prospects are infinite.
Name ownership is an absolute right: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)-Agree
Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)-Agree
Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)-Agree
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)-Agree
My web3 qualifications / skills: I only have the basic knowledge of web3, but I am very keen and confident to learn it. ENS is an important discovery. I like it and I am very willing to share it with my friends around me.
Name ownership shall not be infringed: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) - Disagree. I think we need to be open to revoking ownership in certain illegal use cases (terrorism, child porn, drug markets, etc). We also might consider revoking ownership in clear trademark squatting cases (JoshHart.eth, Cocacola.eth, etc). We all want an open, decentralized, censorship-resistant internet, but I donāt think that means we have to allow the tools we build to be used in highly immoral and illegal ways.
Fees are primarily an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) Disagree. I believe the secondary goal outlined in the ENS proposed Constitution (i.e. funding the DAO and ENS development) is the more important reason to have registration/renewal fees. I believe the current ENS team has always been strangely pre-occupied with discouraging speculation and holding ENS names as an investment, and this view is misguided. Regardless, imposing a registration fee doesnāt really do much to discourage speculation - it just is baked into the secondary sales. We need only look at DNS as an example of how this doesnāt really work to discourage scalpers and squatters.
Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) Agree.
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) Mixed - I think we should try to work with ICANN and the existing DNS - especially to integrate resolution of the .eth extension in all browsers and email servers. But I believe we should be open to expanding suffixes besides .eth. The proposed constitution states as an example: āENS governance must not create new top-level domains unless those domains have been granted to ENS by a DNS authority.ā I donāt agree with that. I believe our goal should be that eventually ENS replaces DNS, not that it is absorbed into DNS. We shouldnāt be asking permission from ICANN to release new ENS extensions.
My web3 qualifications / skills: Iām a licensed attorney with a lot of domain name experience. Iāve been coding for more than 25 years. Iāve done a bit of solidity and have coded and deployed a React site onto IPFS resolving to an ENS name.
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
Being a delegate shows that one believes in something enough to put in the work to make their voice heard. To be in such a position is important because from this vantage point one may speak with othersā wants and needs in mind. I want to be an ENS delegate because I have a passion for the future of ENS, Ethereum, and crypto as a whole matched only by my desire to make a positive impact on the path to this future.
Name ownership shall not be infringed: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree (not permissible). ENS provides names. Once a name is under a userās ownership, the terms of said ownership should not be modified under any circumstances.
Fees are primarily an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree (permissible). ENS may adjust the price for reserving names as the DAO sees fit. The market for name registrations must adapt to the situation at hand. Unlike the previous question, the price adjustment in this situation occurs before a user owns a name. This is acceptable because the contract between ENS and the owner does not change while said contract is active.
Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree (permissible). The development of the web3 ecosystem should be a collaborative effort where the currently successful DAOs use their success to create more progress either within, or outside of their system. Decentralization goes hand in hand with collaboration since there is no centralized party to reap the benefits of aggressive competition.
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree (permissible). ENS should integrate with the current DNS system to allow for usability in the current ecosystem, but this should not be the end goal for ENS.
My web3 qualifications / skills:
I am a computer science student with a focus on data science. I have experience in release engineering and cloud computing from my time at Teradyne. I have spent years in the crypto space and have worked directly with a start up in its early stages (Bitquence ā Ethos ā Voyager (current namesake)) I am currently learning Solidity and honing my skills in web development. I have a passion for decentralization and specifically bringing financial control to the individual. Soon, I will be studying in the DeFi space full time as I see this paradigm shift as quite the time sensitive endeavor.
Much love. I am excited to see what the future holds for us all
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: domain is the most important thing just as TCP/IP DNS, I am a network engineer, understanding well with DNS, knowing how to make a better and quicker understand to those who isnāt yet into blockchain network, I will be proud of becoming a member of DAO Delegate.
**My view on each section of the [proposed ENS Constitution ]
Name ownership shall not be infringed: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree (not permissible). ENS provides names. Once a name is under a userās ownership, the terms of said ownership should not be modified under any circumstances.
Fees are primarily an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree (permissible). ENS may adjust the price for reserving names as the DAO sees fit. The market for name registrations must adapt to the situation at hand. Unlike the previous question, the price adjustment in this situation occurs before a user owns a name. This is acceptable because the contract between ENS and the owner does not change while said contract is active.
Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree (permissible). The development of the web3 ecosystem should be a collaborative effort where the currently successful DAOs use their success to create more progress either within, or outside of their system. Decentralization goes hand in hand with collaboration since there is no centralized party to reap the benefits of aggressive competition.
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree (permissible). ENS should integrate with the current DNS system to allow for usability in the current ecosystem, but this should not be the end goal for ENS.
Name ownership is an absolute right: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)** Agree.
Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)** Agree.
Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)** I totally Agree.
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) I agree, ENS should be the standard on the Global Namespace in the future.
My web3 qualifications / skills: Have been involved with web 3 since the last summer. I can read code and execute the contract. Most importantly I am a Chinese but also good at English, can bring thoughts to the DAO.
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
ENS has proven itself to be a crucial piece of infrastructure in the decentralized web3 future. I believe it will continue to serve this role and I wish to actively steward it as Web3 emerges, in alignment with the values of Web3. I believe I can play a positive role.
My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution:
Name ownership shall not be infringed: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree. Ownership must be reliable.
Fees are primarily an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree. Non-extractive.
Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree. Positive sum.
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)
Agree. Cohesion should be a goal. There appears to be a not insignificant amount of misunderstanding on this point though so the prose should be updated for clarification.
My web3 qualifications / skills:
Professional Software Engineer with 10 years of experience and I have been involved in the space since 2015. I manually audit contracts as part of DYOR. I have familiarity and experience working with tech and Web standards bodies (e.g. Khronos and W3C) and protocol governance.
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I believe in an inclusive Web3 future where self custody and personal autonomy can empower participants to truly own their identities.
Name ownership and particularly the ability to retain control over oneās own name, is a core principle of decentralized identity.
Fees are primarily an incentive mechanism: Agree
Fees are a disincentive to ENS-squat. We have often been in situations in which the domain we want is unavailable due to a squatter. This can still happen in the web3 world, but we need to impose a cost to doing so, and fees make sense in this respect.
Income funds ENS and other public goods: Agree
We cannot be sure of what the future holds. Retaining the ability to support other public good projects ensures maximum flexibility.
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: Agree
The standard Internet isnāt going away. ENS should support interoperability with it. Ownership means ownership means ownership.
My web3 qualifications / skills: I spent 5 years as a privacy and backend engineer at Palantir Technologies and am familiar with standard DNS routing as well as web 3 architectures. I also come from a background in technology policy (Georgetown) and business (Stanford MBA), so I bring multiple disciplines to challenges.
Believing that the first item āName ownership is an absolute right (or) shall not be infringedā (why did this change midstream?), I believe once you own your ENS name that it is yours forever, that renewing it is not necessary. Itās yours to keep, transfer, sell, or pass down to children. I think the ENS token and other ideas can fund the project some way without requiring people to renew/rent their own domain. Ownership has a meaning. The worry about people squatting on domains is not worth what results in/by the consequence of taking away or losing the ownership of your ENS names. Imagine someone sending ETH payments to your ENS name only a year or more later if you didnāt renew, sending payments meant for you going to someone else! Imagine someone passing whose spouse doesnāt know about renewing. Ownership should mean ability to pass down to children and grandchildren. Ownership should also be protected in such cases where someone is hacked, maybe their metamask was taken, and can prove such, there should be some way to get the ENS name back to the owner. Also if court order demands something, ENS must be able to fulfil the terms of the order such as taking back illegally stolen names.
Name ownership shall not be infringed: Agree with comment above
Fees are primarily an incentive mechanism: Agree
Income funds ENS and other public goods: Agree
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: Agree
My web3 qualifications / skills:
I founded and have run a network security company for 32 years: NH&A, LLC (nha.com). I was early adopter in May 2017 of ENS and helped a number of users with registering or recovering their ENS name. I have no programming skills whatsover but I can help with understanding the overall picture of what needs to get done, help improve the GUI user interface and use common sense from 77 years experience I am a grandfather, fisherman, private pilot, husband, diver, professional engineer, bachelor of engineering science, MSEE, an Ethereum miner and a nerd.
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
My interests lie in building and supporting organizations that pave a way for more autonomy and sovereignty for individuals. ENS is a foundational piece of Web3, and is building a world where individuals can have more ownership. How ENS has structured and implemented their governance is going to be an example to Web3 organizations yet to come. I would like to use my knowledge and experience of Web3 and governance to support the good work ENS is doing, and support the Web3 community as a whole. I will leverage my Web2 experience in public policy and lobbying to continue to push forward the values of web3 and ENS in topics including ownership and net neutrality.
My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution 850
Name ownership is an absolute right: Agree
Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: Agree
Income funds ENS and other public goods: Agree
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: Agree
My web3 qualifications / skills:
Over 4 years of experience in Web3. (Consensys Mesh, AirSwap, bloXroute Labs and more)
Being early in organizations Iāve worked on various sides of business including, strategy, partnerships, marketing and communications.
Iāve been advocating for Web3 ideals since 2013. (Equity Based Crowdfunding, Share Economy Legislation, general innovation legislation)
I have experience lobbying for the tech industry, building stakeholder groups, and finding consensus among varying goals and agendas.
Web2 orgs Iāve worked with on public policy issues Uber/Lyft, Visa, AT&T, Microsoft and more
I have been been aware of crypto since early 2012 and have since aped in early 2020 with my wife. With my continued frustration with the gross spending and printing of money, I have not only favored crypto and blockchain as a superior form of transaction just our currency but as a technology that will disrupt every sector of life as we know it over the next 10 years. I have am a firm supporter of nearly all decentralized efforts.
Name ownership shall not be infringed: Agree , this is reasonable.
Fees are primarily an incentive mechanism: Agree , I have no problem with supply the DAO with an incentivized mechanism.
Income funds ENS and other public goods: Agree , the ability to allocate funds to outside projects, scholarships, no profit entities or etc.
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: Disagree , I donāt think ENS should grant control to top-level domains to their due to their legacy of being registered on the DNS 1st. These entities had the opportunity already to adopt new innovations with the DNS and now with the ENS system new users/new blood must now forfeit these opportunities to these āVeteransā. I think 1st come 1st serve is best. I understand for the ease of integration and global adoption that we want ENS to be fluid with the DNS authority however, DNS may not be the superior authority moving forward.
My web3 qualifications / skills : Well versed in the blockchain and crypto space and terminology. Understands the meta, nft, DEFI, CEX, DEX, staking, and the importance of GM.
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I want to contribute my share to the development of ENS.
My view on each section of the [proposed ENS Constitution ](Proposed ENS Constitution 23)
Name ownership is an absolute right: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)- Agree
Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)- Agree
Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree/Disagree/Comment)- Agree
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree/Disagree/Comment) - Agree
My web3 qualifications / skills:I am an early blockchain enthusiast with my own community and I want to promote it and inject more energy into ENS.
Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanism: Agree
Income funds ENS and other public goods: Agree
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: Agree
My web3 qualifications / skills: I am a professional project manager with an excellent background in marketing and web3. Every day I learn something new and as an ENS delegator I could easily fulfill my potential 100%.
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: While I am excited about the move towards being a DAO, I have already seen that voter apathy can be a huge problem going forward. I am happy ENS is starting with delegation right away - it helped MakerDAO tremendously. I have a solid background on pre-web3.0 internet and think we should push forward working together with e.g. ICANN to increase our footprint. We wonāt have a revolution without integrating with the legacy internet.
My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution
Name ownership shall not be infringed: Agree
Fees are primarily an incentive mechanism: Agree
Income funds ENS and other public goods: Agree
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: Agree
My web3 qualifications / skills:
pre-web3 background: I have been working in the engineering division within 1&1 Ionos - the largest webhoster in Germany - for more than a decade. I have built up a pretty solid knowledge of the mechanics of the boomer-internet during that time
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate:
I want to help propel the Ethereum and web3 ecosystem forward in the best way possible to benefit our community and decentralization. I am a part of many large and well-connected communities in the space (MVHQ, BAYC, 721DAO, Anonymice, CoolCats, etc.), where I can aggregate our thoughts to make a collective decision.
My web3 qualifications / skills:
I am well versed in the NFT space and on Crypto Twitter. I have been actively trading, consulting, and interacting since May 2021. I was also recently a Growth PM at NEAR Protocol until I decided to pursue NFTs and consulting full-time under Non-Fungible Consulting, LLC. I am very comfortable interacting with solidity contracts via etherscan and I look forward to integrating ENS Domains to L2s, such as IMX and Arbitrum. Along with being a part of many impactful communities, I also have a sizable following on Twitter (6.3k) to help spread our message and increase awareness of ENS and Web3.
My reasons for wanting to be a delegate: I am passionate about participating and helping in any way I can with facilitating a sovereign internet for all. I believe ENS is a huge part of that infrastructure and I want to make sure that it is kept open for all to participate.
Fees are primarily an incentive mechanism: (Agree)
Income funds ENS and other public goods: (Agree)
ENS Integrates with the global namespace: (Agree)
My web3 qualifications / skills:
I have no real qualifications that look good on paper. I participate in some discussions in Gitcoin when I can and I promise to be communicative and to always keep the majority of users in mind, new and old. Thank you for your consideration
My view on each section of the proposed ENS Constitution
I. Name ownership is an absolute rightļ¼Agreeļ¼
II. Registration fees exist as an incentive mechanismļ¼Agreeļ¼
III. Income funds ENS and other public goodsļ¼Agreeļ¼
IV. ENS Integrates with the global namespaceļ¼Agreeļ¼
My web3 qualifications / skills:
Researcher and writing, education in Japanese
I agree to all items.
I am looking forward to the future that ENS will open up and I am honored to be a part of it!
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