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title: 'ICOE: Missing Personnel'
tags: [Emergency Resources]

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tags: Emergency Resources
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# ICOE: Missing Personnel

Missing key personnel constitutes a major risk for the DAO and, in certain cases, it could be considered an emergency. 

This emergency-type considers missing personnel from different perspectives. There are multiple possibilities when a person disappears and different possibilities can have different implications. For example; Disappearing due to a hospitalization without proper notification vs getting kidnapped could trigger different procedures from the DAO.

The risks of missing key personnel can be either by omission, where it is _the absence_ of key personnel that constitutes a risk (e.g., missing key personnel without whom core duties vital to the survival of the protocol get neglected); or by action, where it is the conditioned behavior or compromised identity of the missing key personnel that poses a risk (e.g., kidnapped key personnel who is forced to disclose critical information or perform malicious action through their privlidged position).

### Unresponsiveness

Unresponsiveness can have several possible causes:

- Desertion
- Technical issues
- Health issues
- Other

Knowing which of these causes is behind a particular case of missing key personnel may or may not be possible.

### Criterion

Assessing whether we are before an instance of unresponsiveness emergency is heavily context-dependent and hard to formalize exhaustively. However, there are essentially two ways in which unresponsiveness can make itself known: as the sheer, actual, effective unresponsiveness itself; and as verifiable information regarding unresponsiveness.

Raising this emergency should be considered when:

- Key personnel cannot be contacted within a reasonable time frame. This time frame should be dramatically shorter if critical duties have been neglected
- Verifiable information has been made known that key personnel will not be performing their duties, for whatever reason (e.g., desertion, death)

### Malicious Third-Party Intervention

[Kidnapping]
[Compromised identity?]
[Extortion?]
[$5 wrench attack]

## FAQs

## Resources

## Templates

### Initial Emergency Notification Thread

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Title: [Notification and Updates] Missing Personnel Emergency

Body: Here we lay out all the details of the situation, what to expect, and other resources related to this case of Missing Personnel. This thread will remain locked except for mandated actors who will be posting periodic updates. Please visit [this thread_link]() for public discussion.

## Type of Emergency

*Missing Personnel*

Key MakerDAO personnel has gone missing. Missing key personnel constitutes a major risk for the DAO and is considered an emergency. The details of this particular case are considered further down under the Summary of the Situation.

## Summary of the Situation

Severity level is [variable]

[### Irresponsiveness

Key personnel [name/handle] is nonresponsive, as determined by [actor who triggered the emergency?] on grounds of [timespan, third-party provided information, etc]]

[### Malicious Third-Party Intervention

Key personnel [name/handle] has been [TBD]

## Affected Stakeholders

* [variable]

## Current Issues

* [variable]

## What to expect


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### Discussion Thread

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### Signal Thread for xxx(emergency specific)

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### Response Summary Thread

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