How is data proposed onto the network?
Single digital identities for each validator agent is the proposed configuration. A know your client protocol is mandatory when validator accounts are created (that is when validators are nominated).
An identity can be either a natural person or a legal personality. A legal personality must nominate a single natural person as its delegate for security and authentication purposes.
Data Proposal
Any member can propose data to be recorded to the Proof of Authority blockchain. A valid data proposal must fulfil conditions of proposition relevant to the data and decision protocol that is applicable. Data proposals will be resolved via a multisig decision-making protocol.
Data proposers can also elect to invite the community at large to participate in an attestation process.
If the decision protocol results in a valid affirmation of the proposal, the data is included in the blockchain.
Proposals that do not satisfy the decision protocol is therefore not included in the blockchain.
Future iterations may consider in more detail the extent to which certain decision types are channeled to particular validation decision protocols (see below for discussion).
Types of Decision Protocols
We propose initially a framework comprising four decision protocols. These protocols are aligned to matter importance.
The greater the importance the higher the decision threshold, and vice versa.
These are:
Delegated decisions (no vote). These do not need to be referred to the network as a whole. Such decisions must have proposals that fulfil a range of conditions precedent;
Simple majority decisions of eligible and valid votes cast;
Absolute majority decisions, namely a 50%+1 majority decision of all eligible members; and
Super majority decisions, namely a majority proportion that is greater than 50%+1 (eg. 2/3 majority) of all eligible members.
These various considerations are summarised in the Table below.
The proposed formula sees the number of proposers and witnesses increase in a non-linear manner as the decision type escalates. For example, if for a decision type that requires No Vote is proposed, the proposal committee requires 3 members (1 proposer and 2 witnesses), then for Decision Type 3, the proposal committee must have 9 members; for Decision Type 2 the proposal committee has 27 members; and for Decision Type 1 the proposal committee has 81 members.
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