service provider proposals should be for organisations building ENS ecosystem components. The Public Goods working group provides funding for wider ecosystem projects, but the service provider streams are targeted specifically at building new core infrastructure for ENS.
@nick.eth The rules don’t say that, and in fact they make provision for teams focused on areas beyond the direct ENS ecosystem.
9.3 says: “The Ecosystem Working Group may delegate oversight responsibility to the Public Goods or Meta-Governance Working Groups if the nature of the service is more aligned with their mandate.”
Because of this, I plan on applying for the streaming funding for my Ethereum Follow Protocol team, which is mostly not building tools directly for the ENS ecosystem narrowly understood, but something that certainly complements and enhances the value of ENS.
Of course, what actually gets funding or not will be up to the voting.