Eight of his most famous representatives supported the new project management mechanism without the participation of Vitalik Buterin.
Ideas were discussed (https://medium.com/eip0-summit/eip0-summit-statement-of-intent-to-support-ethereum-governance-initiatives-e54ff782933) on the sidelines of the secret EIP: 0 summit in Toronto. And after the company, including Parity Technologies, Aragon and Web3 Foundation, signed a document on the intention to create "open source tools for the collection of key signals and metrics." On their basis, once a month, a "management decision" will be taken. Key signals will include trading volume Ethereum, the number of active contracts and projects on GitHub and other factors. Grants are one of the incentives for technological development. The participants have already warmly supported the holding of the second EIP summit: 0.
It is noteworthy that the founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin was not invited to EIP: 0 and does not know what was discussed there.
"Funny fact: I was not at this meeting, it was organized without my permission or even participation, and I honestly have no idea what happened there," Buterin wrote on Twitter.
They key aspect of blockchain technology is permission-less, you don't need anyone permission to make decisions, this will reduce centralized form of governance in the blockchain space. To me this is not a scandal but how cryptospace works.