DFINITY Foundation

Internet Computer Association

increase the minimum voting period for proposals to 4 days and to increase maximum voting period extension due to wait-for-quiet to 4 days, resulting in a maximum voting period of 8 days.

Each proposal that is submitted to and stored in the governance canister has an associated initial voting period. Due to the wait-for-quiet algorithm, a proposal’s voting period can be dynamically increased, depending on the neurons’ votes. In particular, wait-for-quiet ensures that proposals where all voters agree can be decided quickly while controversial proposals, where the voting outcome is turned from a Yes-majority to a No-majority or vice versa, are open for a longer period.

Currently, each proposal’s voting period is initially set to 24 hours and can be extended for at most another 24 hours by wait-for-quiet. That is, currently each proposal is open for at least 24 hours and at most 48 hours. We propose to increase the minimum voting period for proposals to 4 days and to increase maximum voting period extension due to wait-for-quiet to 4 days, resulting in a maximum voting period of 8 days. You can read more here: https://forum.dfinity.org/t/increasing-the-wait-for-quiet-mechanism-time-proposal-for-governance-canister/9273

Increase the wait-for-quiet