# About the Council Proposals category

**URL:** <https://forum.telcoin.org/t/about-the-council-proposals-category/126>\
**Category:** Council Proposals\
**Created:** [December 6, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.telcoin.org/t/about-the-council-proposals-category/126 "2023-12-06T23:52:21Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 6, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.telcoin.org/t/about-the-council-proposals-category/126/1 "2023-12-06T23:52:21Z")

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Miner Councils are policy-making organizations who represent their constituents’ interests in collective-choice processes that serve to set, enforce, and refine the rules for interacting with the Telcoin Platform, such as providing for improvements or allocating TEL issuance.

### Miner Council Decision-making Rules

The processes used by Miner Councils to set the rules that structure day-to-day interactions within their domain of the Telcoin Platform and governance system.

- **[Telcoin Improvement Proposal (TIP)](https://www.telcoin.org/documentation/association-governance/association-rules/collective-choice-rules/miner-council-decision-making-rules/telcoin-improvement-proposal-tip-rules):** The process used by the Platform Council to set, enforce, and refine platform-wide social policies.
- **[TEL Improvement Proposal (TELIP)](https://www.telcoin.org/documentation/association-governance/association-rules/collective-choice-rules/miner-council-decision-making-rules/tel-improvement-proposal-telip-rules):** The process used by the Platform and Treasury Councils to set, enforce and refine the rules related to the TEL Token Contract and Treasury, Telcoin Network, and all other platform-wide social and legal policies.
- **[TELx Improvement Proposal (TELxIP)](https://www.telcoin.org/documentation/association-governance/association-rules/collective-choice-rules/miner-council-decision-making-rules/telx-improvement-proposal-telxip-rules):** The process used by the TELx Council to govern TELx operational rules and improvements.
- **[TAN Improvement Proposal (TANIP)](https://www.telcoin.org/documentation/association-governance/association-rules/collective-choice-rules/miner-council-decision-making-rules/tan-improvement-proposal-tanip-rules):** The process used by the TAN Council to make decisions related to TAN improvements and policies.
- **[Compliance Council Improvement Proposal (CCIP)](https://www.telcoin.org/documentation/association-governance/association-rules/collective-choice-rules/miner-council-decision-making-rules/compliance-council-improvement-proposal-ccip-rules):** The process used by the Compliance Council to veto Miner Council proposals, develop authorizations and conflict resolution procedures, and to authorize participants into positions of authority on the platform.