# Who votes?

- What stakeholders vote?
- Tokenholders
- Validators
- How is voting power determined?
- Stake weight
- Other options?

# What is voted on?
- Treasury management
- Grants
- Ongoing funding (if different from grants?)
- Technical considerations
- Upgrades approvals
- Feature gate activation approval
- Client adoption
- Feature implementation
- e.g. slashing
- Social coordination
- (Not exactly sure about this but feel there are probably "softer" decisions that need to be made. This can be removed if we can't think of any concrete examples.)

# How and where does voing take place?
- Offchain discussion
- [SIMD](https://forum.solana.com/c/simd/5)
- [sRFC](https://forum.solana.com/c/srfc/6)
- Onchain implementation
- Still requires manual intervention?
- Triggered by onchain events?
# When does the process get implemented?
- Phase 0 - Planning
- July 2023 to October 2023 - Develop Phase 1 proposal
- October 2023 - Present Phase 1 proposal
- November 2023 to December 2023 - Revise and approve Phase 1 proposal
- Phase 1 - Scope TBD (Possibly slashing implementation?)
- January 2024 - Begin Phase 1 implementation
...
- Phase X - Timing and Scope TBD