Are you bored and annoyed by the constant delay of the EOS mainnet launch, like are many? The launch might be tomorrow 13 UTC as
@aclarkuk82 reported in detail, maybe take another 24-48 hours. We'll see....
Yet whereas everyones attention is on the technical launch,there has been tremendous progress in governance: The EOS Core Arbitration Forum (ECAF) has formed and 4 interim arbitrators have been appointed.
EOS - state of the launch - Arbitration!
Since a few days now, the ECAF has now setup a website where you can already submit a claim:
https://eoscorearbitration.io/
The first 4 interim Arbitrators have been announced:
https://forums.eosgo.io/discussion/1174/1st-set-of-ecaf-interim-arbitrators-named
These are:
William Bozarth (USA)
John Chamberlain (Thailand, expat)
Michael Kimani (Kenya)
Sam Sapoznick (USA)
This selection swiftly sparked some criticism in the governance telegram for the process of selection, and if the arbitrators met the requirements set in the nomination form. The other point was the local concentration of arbitrators, who nearly all come from the US, or England respectively.
My guess is, for the interim phase that might be okay, but for full arbitrators the community the process must be more transparent. In addition a lot of practical terms need to be cleared, with arbitrators payment included (interim arbitrators will act as volunteers)
But there are more news ahead:
Last minute change of article 9 regarding the default arbitration forum
Thomas Cox has proposed to change the default arbitration back from the ICC to the ECAF:
He explains his reasons in detail here:
https://forums.eosgo.io/discussion/1189/the-case-for-reverting-article-ix-9/
To sum it up, with the ECAF being established, the urgent need to revert to an institution external to the blockchain, and possibly overruling community decision, isnt necessary and maybe even harmful. ICC arbitration could also turn out to be quite expensive.
@champagnecrypto that might be just the news you wanted to hear...
This last minute change is also a bit odd, given the hard push b1 has given the community to agree upon a default constitution themselves... Now b1 more or less forces a last minute change of the constitution to meet their vision. Not exactly what i'd call community driven.....and it seems to give the bp an extra hard time for the launch.