Temp-Check: Strategy & Discussion Call (Office Hours)

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Context

Recent working group minutes suggest a need for a dedicated space to discuss topics that emerge during meetings but often lack sufficient time for in-depth coverage.

Question: Would a bi-weekly strategy and discussion call help fill this gap and provide a dedicated space for deeper discussions?

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Key Community Requests

The following requests have been documented and retrieved from the weekly meeting minutes and/or discussion threads.

Service Provider Program

Meta-Governance meeting minutes suggest the need for deeper, structured discussions on unaddressed ENS ecosystem needs. This includes a dedicated space for Service Providers to discuss DAO tooling and protocol requirements, as well as industry verticals ENS can engage with—such as account abstraction, AI, DeFi, and R&D—in collaboration with ENS Labs’ product and developer teams.

Delegate and Voter Participation

Further discussion indicated the need to improve delegate engagement, introduce incentives, and suggested a technical liaison to support non-technical delegates. Participants also spoke of a DAO focus group to clarify delegate intent in voting.

Debate on ENSIPs

Ecosystem meeting minutes highlight ongoing debate over independent ENSIP editors and whether ENSIPs should become non-canonical to foster experimentation. Discussions also cover AI Agent metadata standards, broader AI standards for ENS, ethical considerations, public data concerns, and implementing onchain verifiable AI metadata standards.

Temp-check: Strategy & Discussion Call (Office Hours)

Would a dedicated, opt-in call, moderated by a trusted and well-known delegate, be useful for addressing these requests? It could serve as an overflow space for niche topics flagged in working group meetings but not fully explored. The agenda would organically emerge from these flagged discussion points, allowing for deep dives into complex issues.

This call could generate insights and produce actionable recommendations, which a volunteer could track, organize, and present to inform decision-making in other meetings. When specific needs arise, relevant product strategy and developer teams could be invited to participate.

To delegates, contributors, service providers, and Labs: Would this call be valuable to you? Is it a heavy lift? Do you have any suggestions for improvement?

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I would join such a call on Labs’ behalf.

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+1 on this. Bi-weekly sounds good. These 3 topics are excellent choices to kick things off with.

To make these calls productive – I’d advocate we have one person in charge of creating the agenda each time and inviting relevant people to participate in the discussion. I’d be happy to take notes for these calls as well.

Another topic I’d add here in the future is Ecosystem Growth (ENS+Namechain).

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I would also attend these calls. I also just posted an idea about how the Service Provider Program could be structured and would be happy to present it, among other topics.

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How is this different from Meta-gov call?

For example l2beat people have “office hours”, but the only reason they have it is because they are such a big delegate within so many protocols. So if people want to go and talk specifically to them, they could attend those.

In case of ENS information flow would either way ultimately go through Meta-gov stewards. Why don’t we just increase the length of Meta-gov call by 30 minutes for example for starters and see where it gets us. This would also allow to avoid confusion of having multiple calls with unclear purpose.

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I like the idea and see a clear need for us to discuss these topics. To me it looks like this could be added in the agenda of the current WGs calls, also because it’s a call mixed with different areas (governance, technical/protocol discussions)

Metagov

  • Delegate and Voter Participation

Ecosystem

  • Service Provider Program
  • Debate on ENSIPs (this is already happening well, but I miss having a more direct iteration towards moving the ENSIPs to a final stage)

The difficulty here is attending all calls and only in one out of x number of calls we go deeper on these subject and in a useful way.

We could experiment something like each call has a main topic so people can prepare in advance and also it would attract folks who are interested specifically in this subject.

Example: first call of the month, metagov focus on delegate engagement and ecosystem focus on service provider discussions.

Looking forward to experiment, I’d attend this call! Thanks for bringing this up @estmcmxci!

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+1 As a potential vendor a space like this is a good opportunity to learn more about the needs of the DAO and ensure solutions presented are aligned.

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Great idea. I would be happy to attend and participate from the ENS PG side of things!

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