Ethereum's governance model is not flawed, it is simply poorly communicated, said cryptocurrency creator, Vitalik Buterin, at a meeting of developers on Friday.

In the midst of a heated debate over a proposal to standardize a method by which ethereum software changes would be considered a way to recover lost funds, developers discussed how to clarify their process for accept code changes. move to solve perceived problems.

Since the proposal was submitted in January, hundreds of community members have opposed the proposal – whose core stems from the decisions taken in the 2016 DAO hacking. A veteran member of the team Coding even resigned from his position amid concerns about the process and the resulting backlash.

As such, Buterin's comments to the main contributors to the open-source project focused on perceptions among users that the Ethereum senior developer team was not Quick enough or allowed to resolve the conflict.

Buterin said:

"In fact, I personally think that our governance mechanism, as it is de facto, is not so bad, probably because the main flaw is not both the mechanism and the way we communicate it. "

According to Buterin, this is due to a lack of clarity on the process proposals such as the controversial EIP 867 undergo before they are merged with the code of the live platform.

"The impression that many members of the community have received from the outside is that [EIP 867] is much closer to amalgamation than actual implementation, or ultimately accepted, that any no one involved in the decision-making process intended to point out that this is the case, "Buterin continued.

Instead, the status of EIP 867 is like an unapproved draft, a status that it has remained at for three weeks, even though the bitter comment on its thread has increased.

Greg Colvin, who is leading an effort to improve etheric governance, reflected on this, arguing that developers could do more to understand the initial nature of the proposal.

"There really should not be a huge debate about whether we should assign a number to this IEP and call it a draft, it's a technical, editorial issue, which does not should not be so difficult and so controversial. "

But since he's become combative, Alex van de Sande, a developer of the ethereum fog navigator, has suggested that another proposal, the application proposal for the Immutability (IMP), which arose in response to EIP 867, should also be merged.

This proposal provides a standard for rejecting fundraising proposals, and according to van de Sande, could demonstrate to the community "that you can have controversial standards, and a standard engaging the other, and both can be approved as a project. "

Buterin took note of the idea, saying:

"I agree that it's definitely a clever way to undo the signal."

Image Vitalik via the Center for Innovation in International Governance

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