{"@context":{"@language":"en-us","CIP100":"https://github.com/cardano-foundation/CIPs/blob/master/CIP-0100/README.md#","CIP108":"https://github.com/cardano-foundation/CIPs/blob/master/CIP-0108/README.md#","hashAlgorithm":"CIP100:hashAlgorithm","body":{"@id":"CIP108:body","@context":{"references":{"@id":"CIP108:references","@container":"@set","@context":{"GovernanceMetadata":"CIP100:GovernanceMetadataReference","Other":"CIP100:OtherReference","label":"CIP100:reference-label","uri":"CIP100:reference-uri","referenceHash":{"@id":"CIP108:referenceHash","@context":{"hashDigest":"CIP108:hashDigest","hashAlgorithm":"CIP100:hashAlgorithm"}}}},"title":"CIP108:title","abstract":"CIP108:abstract","motivation":"CIP108:motivation","rationale":"CIP108:rationale","cip179":{"@id":"CIP179:link","@context":{"specVersion":"CIP179:specVersion","kind":"CIP179:kind","surveyTxId":"CIP179:surveyTxId","surveyIndex":"CIP179:surveyIndex"}}}},"authors":{"@id":"CIP100:authors","@container":"@set","@context":{"name":"http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name","witness":{"@id":"CIP100:witness","@context":{"witnessAlgorithm":"CIP100:witnessAlgorithm","publicKey":"CIP100:publicKey","signature":"CIP100:signature"}}}},"CIP179":"https://github.com/cardano-foundation/CIPs/blob/master/CIP-0179/README.md#"},"hashAlgorithm":"blake2b-256","authors":[{"name":"adatainment","witness":{"witnessAlgorithm":"CIP-0008","publicKey":"44dc93625180513e8b0d81100acf8531d97119c3f9e2ba2c51ab163906df1d25","signature":"84584aa3012704581de0863ae82daba6a0044c651216e4989b45044b07296533e6a3daf338cd6761646472657373581de0863ae82daba6a0044c651216e4989b45044b07296533e6a3daf338cda166686173686564f458205e6f9db95ca46f149d1a28d0ee80c81c48f9017dca27ebcb1817ef357d0e98ec58409247454f6310f6b8a14e42e18d7e99e2e39b75702cb6eb3b4fe24713e3465342aacfbb5a67b8594d80d60b3a3fc3cb4721c1624493820950bf9d11ab3e7f4c01"}}],"body":{"title":"How long should a DRep stay active without voting?","abstract":"This action created on https://preprod.dreptalk.com asks DReps a single question and points at a CIP-179 survey that collects the answers on chain. It changes nothing by itself. An info action carries no parameters and enacts nothing, so the result is a signal.\n\nThe question: drep_activity currently expires a DRep after 20 epochs without voting or otherwise acting. That number was set early and has not been revisited against how DReps actually behave.\n\nThis is a test action on preprod. Do not read it as a mainnet proposal.","motivation":"An expiring DRep stops counting toward the active voting stake, and the delegators behind that DRep lose their voice until the DRep acts again. The expiry exists for a good reason. Stake parked behind a DRep who has walked away should not keep raising the bar that live participants have to clear.\n\nWhat is unclear is whether 20 epochs, roughly 100 days, is the right cut. Too short, and a DRep who deliberately abstains from a quiet stretch of governance is treated as absent. Too long, and abandoned stake keeps distorting thresholds for months.\n\nAnswering that needs the view of the people the rule applies to, and until now there has been no structured way to ask them on chain. A free-text forum thread produces opinions that nobody can count. A governance action produces a yes or no on a question that is not a yes or no question.\n\nA CIP-179 survey is the missing instrument. It records each DRep's answer on chain, under their own credential, in a form a conformant reader can tally.","rationale":"## Why an information action plus a survey\n\nThe two do different jobs. This action is the thing DReps already watch, and it carries the question to them. The survey is the thing that records a structured answer. Linking them means a DRep who finds the action also finds the instrument, and an observer counting the answers can prove which question they belong to.\n\nThe survey linked here closes in the same epoch this action stops accepting votes, so the two windows are the same window. An answer arriving after the action has closed would be an answer to a question nobody is still asking.\n\n## What this action does not do\n\nIt does not propose a value. Picking 30 over 40 before asking is the mistake this is meant to avoid. If an answer emerges with a clear majority behind it, that becomes a parameter change action on its own merits, with its own debate and its own vote.\n\nIt does not bind anyone. Nobody is required to answer, and a DRep who votes on this action without answering the survey has done nothing wrong.\n\n## What a useful result looks like\n\nEnough answers to see whether there is a cluster, and from a spread of voting power rather than one large DRep. A thin response is itself informative. It would suggest the question is not one DReps feel strongly about, which is a reason to leave the parameter alone.\n\n## Voting on this action\n\nYes means the question is worth asking and the survey is a reasonable way to ask it. No means it is not, or that this is the wrong instrument. Abstain is the honest answer if you have no view.\n\nSince this runs on preprod, none of the above has any effect on mainnet governance.","references":[{"@type":"Other","label":"CIP-1694","uri":"https://cips.cardano.org/cip/CIP-1694"},{"@type":"Other","label":"CIP-179","uri":"https://github.com/cardano-foundation/CIPs/blob/master/CIP-0179/README.md"}],"cip179":{"specVersion":5,"kind":"survey-link","surveyTxId":"e5ebf91d14e30d5b4e0b1a551296ca75421ac142f32272ee5988d9875738cf98","surveyIndex":0}}}