Non-functional requirements

Usability

• The DRep campaign platform should be accessible to non-technical users

• Proposal discussions should be transparent and easy to engage with

• Meet WCAG 3.0 AA accessibility standards

• Support for i18n/localization

Scalability

• There must be enough participation to establish the legitimacy of the DRep campaign process. The tool would need to support at least 250,000 concurrent users.

Performance

• Tool responsiveness: front page must load within 2 seconds for users accessing the website using an LTE mobile connection

IP rights

• The code must be open source, with an open source license that permits the assets to be changed, redistributed, and used commercially (suggested: Apache 2.0 for code and CC BY 4.0 for other documents and assets)

• Any third party dependencies must not hinder or prevent the assets from being changed, redistributed, and used commercially

• The assets created for this proposal will be universally accessible on a public repository by the time the project is complete

• The assets created for this proposal must migrate into Intersect’s repositories if requested by Intersect

Open source requirements

• While this instance is unique to the ways of working to Intersect member, IOG, open source best practice can be referenced from here: Cardano Engineering Handbook

• Guidance related to open source policy can be referenced here

• Guidance related to expected best practices can be referenced here

Technical specification recommendations for FE (to support integration)

• NextJS / React

• Material UI

• i18next (or equivalent. New version support i18n without additional plugin)