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+Proposal: how to use the doc/proposals folder
+
+Background
+---
+It is a bit inconsistent to have some proposals in archive and others in
+doc/proposals. This happened because:
+ 1. Our process is to persist pads in the archive. Some proposals were pads.
+ 2. The proposals in doc/proposals were a bit more structured. It added
+ overhead that we felt was not necessary to have yet.
+
+Proposal
+---
+ 1. Move proposals that were persisted in the archive to doc/proposals as is.
+ To keep it simple, only move proposals that have "proposal" as part of their
+ persisted name.
+ 2. Update affected links so that they are not broken, should not be many.
+ 3. In the future we put all types of proposals in doc/proposal, regardless
+ of if they are related to the Sigsum protocol or something else (like this
+ document). Notably this includes pads that are to be persisted by the chair
+ after our weekly meets.
+ 4. The main criteria is that a document in doc/proposals proposes something.
+ There is no particular format for a proposal's content, other than being
+ plaintext viewable.
+ 5. To keep the listing clean we continue to prefix proposals with
+ YYYY-MM-<name>. The date refers to when the document was initially added.
+
+Notes
+---
+A notable pro with this is that it is easy to update a proposal if we realize
+that something is missing after persisting it. Our archive is not meant to have
+updates.