This proposal isn’t intended to move employees or contributors from one SP to another or to require any current Orb personnel to work for any particular SP as part of the transition. It merely analyzes Orb’s performance, especially its leadership, and suggests a potential party to work in collaboration with OpCo and the Balancer Foundation to help oversee the winding down of Orb and to provide assistance with the transition of its employees performing critical services who want to continue their work within the Balancer ecosystem. As mentioned by other commenters, we would expect further discussions between individuals and SPs, both current and new, to retain Orb employees under structure and leadership that supports growth and innovation for Balancer.
The conclusion here seems incongruent with the points that lead up to it. The agreement between Balancer and Orb (supported by BIP-20 and their SLA) have clauses for reconsideration/termination. Budgets from Orb are also often not voted upon - they are presented to the community by Orb leadership simply for its review in the manner outlined in the proposal. There have been many issues raised on the forum over the last 9 months concerning Orb’s performance, reporting, and its budget. This history and the fact this discussion is happening here, in advance, and will be voted upon by all of Balancer governance, is the very basis of decentralization.
Furthermore, @solarcurve has suggested that future payments to Orb beyond May 31 be presented on the forum and voted on by Balancer governance. It seems that if Orb or any of those affected by the transition, especially its personnel, have an interest in being more involved in the process or with any future transition payment authorizations, then those issues should be raised collaboratively by working to craft a plan and proposal that would be submitted to Balancer governance, discussed, and then voted on. @immutbl has stated he will provide a deliverable by this Friday. If any current Orb personnel have thoughts about how he should approach this process and the deliverable that is being crafted, would like to raise funding concerns, or have concerns about ops issues that should be addressed as part of the transition, then it would be appropriate to raise them with Orb leadership (by helping to craft and refine the deliverable that is being created), raise them here on the forum or as individuals / a separate group by way of a similarly-crafted proposal or even RFC, and with any other SPs who will be involved in the process.
This path would speed up this transition, which is in the best interest of the Balancer community. We are willing to support this change of specifications in the proposal, and will be preparing the fully fleshed out version to go to vote next week.