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  summary: We have determined that this Info governance action is unconstitutional.
  rationale statement: Article III, Section 1(2) of the Cardano Constitution states "The CC shall be limited to voting on the constitutionality of governance actions, including any proposed or contemplated actions contained within "Info" actions." The governance action with ID “gov_action1fzatpjn3e3r09mjzzfptznef9wxg8q4a5uraq04xvfjyhmfzhzfsqqgfc9h” and title “Name the Protocol Version 12 hard fork “von Bergen“” is an Info governance action, so is subject to constitutional assessment. Article II, Section 6(1) of the Cardano Constitution states "To ensure transparency in on-chain governance, proposed governance actions shall follow a standardized and legible format before being recorded or enacted on-chain. This format shall include a URL hosting a document that outlines additional context for the proposed governance action, and the hash of this document. The document hosted by such a URL shall be immutable and incapable of being altered after submission, and the content of every on-chain Governance Action must be identical to the final off-chain version of the proposed action.” The URL used for the governance action’s metadata document is https://str8pool.com/governance/2026-07-23-FabianvBergen.jsonld, which is not immutable. We therefore find this governance action **Unconstitutional**.
  precedent discussion: None
  counterargument discussion: None
  conclusion: This governance action does not fulfil all the requirements for governance actions specified in the Cardano Constitution, so is deemed unconstitutional.
  internal vote:
    constitutional: 0
    unconstitutional: 4
    abstain: 2
    did not vote: 1
authors:
  name: Eastern Cardano Council
  witness:
    witness algorithm: ed25519