List of notaries being removed for inactivity

[raghavrmadya]

Issue Description

The following notaries have been flagged the Fil+ governance team for no due diligence/singing:

Acrontech Inc.
Interstellar Storage
BigData Exchange
CodoonHealth
CoffeeCloud
Fungi Project
Ghost Byte
NonEntropy Tech.
POW POWER
Saukibit, Inc. (DBA Canza Finance)
Starboard

The following are not currently on the multisig due to unable to authenticate in Registry but were elected in v4

IPFS
Koda
Nick Merrick
emo-Capital
IPFS Japan Consortium
NFTStar
SecureExperts

This list does not represent notaries that are being flagged for abuse.

Proposed Solution(s)

Removal for inactivity from the multisig

Timeline

Community review - July 14 - July 18 2023
Removal actioned by RKH - July 19 2023

[herrehesse]

@raghavrmadya This is a very positive development. However, it's crucial to also address the issue of notaries who repeatedly sign abusive applications. It's concerning that many of these notaries refuse to explain themselves and instead resort to attacking those presenting evidence, demonstrating a clear dedication to their misconduct.

The list is below:

• DaYouGroup
• 1ane-1
• woshidama323
• zcfil
• newwebgroup
• ipollo00
• Normalnoise
• Aaron01230
• igoovo
• Bitrise0111
• AthSmith
• Casey-PG
• destor2023
• TakiChain
• UnionLabs2020
• OlivierMolenkamp (REMOVED)
• MetaWaveInfo

The community has raised concerns about numerous instances of abuse by the aforementioned notaries who have been signing applications without proper due diligence, without asking valid questions, and consistently engaging in a recurring pattern of misconduct. Despite repeated allegations, these notaries have failed to provide satisfactory explanations or justify their actions to the community. Therefore, I strongly advise removing these notaries from the multisig at the earliest opportunity.

(It is expected that the list will expand next month as our abuse detection tools improve, enabling us to identify and substantiate additional patterns that connect abuse cases and make them more apparent.)

[xiangloong]

Can it be recovered? I sign now for Coffee Cloud.

[xiangloong]

There was no response for a long time when I verified the client.

[raghavrmadya]

Seeing no major pushbacks from the aforementioned notaries, the aforementioned notaries will be removed from the main multisig

[raghavrmadya]

@galen-mcandrew @simonkim0515

[powpower2022]

Thanks for reminding and all the welcome and we are really sorry for the late reply. The POWPOWER account will continue to be used. Due to internal reasons within the company, we missed a lot and caused the lack of signature before. During this period, we have been tightly following up the situation of the community in a timely manner, and we have seen the latest rules. In the future, we will have positive activity against the rules with our SLA. Please don't remove us, thanks! @raghavrmadya

[joshua-ne]

Please also do not remove us (Nonentropy Tech)! @raghavrmadya @Kevin-FF-USA

[herrehesse]

@junyaoren Why not? You would need to give the community a clear explanation for this.

[herrehesse]

"Due to internal reasons within the company" is no valid reason to be fully inactive.

[joshua-ne]

@junyaoren Why not? You would need to give the community a clear explanation for this.

Thank you for your question and here is my response:

1. We take a LOT of efforts in the process of notary application, including that getting the ledger in China is difficult now. In case you may think this is meaningless to you, it DOES show our willing to contribute to the community as a notary.
2. “internal reasons within company” may not be a valid reason to YOU. However could be truth for some in reality. A LOT of things have happened during the past years and people and companies are doing whatever they can the survive. Being notary is not the only way that a lot of people are contributing to the Filecoin community and it could be less of priority for some time, which doesn’t mean we have no intention to serve as notary in the near future.
3. Personally, I think it’s not quite fair to do the removal this way as a mature community. At least there should be some process and everyone involved should be informed(like tagging in GitHub or on Slack), which could be done with only a little bit more effort.

[Kevin-FF-USA]

Hey Everyone,

I really appreciate those of you that have taken the time to comment in Slack or send your input directly in this proposal.
This issue was the primary topic of today's Notary Governance Meeting meeting. so linking here directly for easy reference.

If any Notaries on this list wish to remain in the program, please open an appeal issue. The intent of the appeal is to give inactive Notaries a chance to address their applications SLA commitment. . To open an appeal, please create a new issue in this Github repository titled APPEAL.
The appeal should include

1. What you;d done to contribute to the program since becoming a Notary.
2. In your Notary Application - what was the SLA level you committed to? What do you plan to contribute to the network specifically over the next 30 days that is part of that SLA level of contribution?

For links related to this issue - please review
SLA STANDARDS - TIME COMMITMENT INHERENT OF NOTARIES

Discussion - 2023 SLA Participation

Community Proposal/Discussion - 911

[psh0691]

I pointed out the issue of notary deactivation from round 3.
I hope that this proposal will be determined and pursued in the right direction for the growth of sound FIL+.

[Holiday507]

Hi, my name is holiday, I'm in charge of Filecoin Plus project of CodoonHealth.
I am proud of being a notary since the fourth round of notary election.
We participated in the Summit as eco-partners in 2020 and being active in the Filecoin community for 3 years. I introduce Filecoin to my partners in our industry.
I attended almost every notary meeting and learned a lot about what a notary should do.
At first, the Filecoin Plus APP had some procedural problems, affecting the approval. The community have some discussions on the approval, and many rules are not very clear. Now the rules of the community are becoming more and more perfect, and I have learned a lot about what to do as a notary, I think I can do well as a notary in the future.
I hope Filecoin plus governance team give us the opportunity to retain our notary status.

[raghavrmadya]

Hi everyone, as mentioned in the governance call, we will be responding to all appeals in the specific issue and this issue is being closed