Building an organization that is both decentralized and stable enough to govern itself is not easy. We’ve worked hard to learn from those who came before us, from the DNS to The DAO.
IPDB is governed by IPDB Foundation consisting of caretakers and the board of directors these caretakers elect.
caretakers:
title:IPDB Caretakers
description:"The IPDB Foundation is made up of its member caretakers, who govern the IPDB Foundation by electing its Management Board. The Caretakers also run the nodes that store and validate transactions sent to IPDB."
features:
- title:"Not-for-profit leadership"
description:"To avoid capture by financial conflict of interests, the majority of caretakers have to be non-for-profit organizations or public benefit corporations, who have serving their mission as a priority over profit."
- title:"Jurisdictional diversity"
description:"To avoid being under the jurisdiction of a single government, no more than half of the caretakers are in one country."
- title:"Geographical diversity"
description:"Our caretakers are spread around the world to improve latency and to limit disruption from regional events like power outages or natural disasters."
- title:"Management Board"
description:"Caretakers elect the Management Board, which is responsible for day-to-day decisions on their behalf, and can vote to recall the Management Board if they disagree with the direction the board is taking."
members:
title:"Current Caretakers"
description:"We've assembled a group of caretakers who work together to build a free, open, and decentralized internet—organizations that have a long-standing commitment to the decentralized web."
board:
title:Management Board
description:"The IPDB Management Board handles the day-to-day management of the IDPB Foundation, including most decisions about the operation of IPDB. IPDB Board Members are elected by the caretakers for a two year term."
description:"The IPDB Foundation promotes science and research on the operation of scalable blockchain databases, the governance of decentralized systems, and the applications of blockchain technology."
The IPDB Foundation promotes science and research on the operation of scalable blockchain databases, the governance of decentralized systems, and the applications of blockchain technology.
We make our work available in many ways:hosting or presenting at conferences and workshops, publishing research results and technical papers, releasing open source software, and more. We make our work freely available online, so everyone can benefit from it.
