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## Abstract

The Conway ledger era ushers in on-chain governance for Cardano via [CIP-1694 | A First Step Towards On-Chain Decentralized Governance](https://github.com/cardano-foundation/CIPs/blob/master/CIP-1694/README.md), with the addition of many new on-chain governance artifacts.
Some of these artifacts support the linking off-chain metadata, as a way to provide context.
Some of these artifacts support the linking of off-chain metadata, as a way to provide context to on-chain actions.

The [CIP-100 | Governance Metadata](https://github.com/cardano-foundation/CIPs/tree/master/CIP-0100) standard provides a base framework for how all off-chain governance metadata should be formed and handled.
But this is intentionally limited in scope, so that it can be expanded upon by more specific subsequent CIPs.
The [CIP-100 | Governance Metadata](https://github.com/cardano-foundation/CIPs/tree/master/CIP-0100) standard provides a base framework for how all off-chain governance metadata can be formed and handled.
But this standard was intentionally limited in scope, so that it can be expanded upon by more specific subsequent CIPs.

This proposal aims to provide a specification for off-chain metadata vocabulary that can be used to give context to Constitutional Committee votes.
This proposal aims to provide a specification for the off-chain metadata vocabulary that can be used to give context to Constitutional Committee votes.

## Motivation: why is this CIP necessary?

### For governance action authors
- Provide clarity to submitters - why their proposal is unconstitutional?
The high-level motivation for this proposal is to provide a standard which improves legitimacy of Cardano's governance system.

### Clarity for governance action authors

Governance action authors are likely to have dedicated a significant amount of time to making their action meaningful and effective (as well as a significant deposit).
If this action is not able to be ratified by the Constitution Committee, it is fair for the author to expect a reasonable explanation from the committee.

Without reasonable context being provided by the constitutional committee votes, authors may struggle to iterate upon their actions, until they are deemed constitutional.

### Context for other voting bodies

### For voters
- Provide clarity to DReps/ada holders/SPOs
- to show that the CC is fair and reasonable
- so the CC don't get voted out OR "no confidenced" - this instability would risk the perceived legitimacy of the system

### CC Votes are different to other types of vote
- little overlap between this and other types of vote, so we cant reuse standards as easily
- CIP100 comment field is fine, but not up to the requirements

## Specification

We define an initial specification for fields which SHOULD be added to constitutional committee votes.
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