Editing Science DAO Framework (section)

=== UI Software ===
Each sDAO must provide software that allows the public to access its capabilities. This software should provide representations corresponding to each of the areas of responsibility listed above. In the following subsections we discuss each area of responsibility, and the corresponding functionality we expect.

Ideally the [[Front-end software|UI software]] will be formally governed by each sDAO, itself. However, this might reach a point of diminishing returns as smaller sDAOs will not have the resources to keep their UIs up to date with changing standards. The alternative is to allow the broader DAO community to manage the deployment processes for the UI software. SDF provides recommended defaults with off-the-shelf UI software, giving each DAO the power to select from basic useful parameters.

In its purest, ideal form this system could support stateless client applications, serving all operational data reliably from blockchain storage. However, blockchain storage is expensive; so in practice, we only want to use it in cases where we really want the long-term guarantee.

This means that we must implement a separate, off-chain stateful layer. There are a variety of options for this off-chain data layer, which we are exploring. For now we merely specify that such a layer must exist.