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Governance & stewardship

A standard no company
gets to own.

Draft 4 is stewarded in public. At ratification, control is designed to pass to a nine-seat Trust Committee: one organization, one vote, with no founder veto.

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NINE EQUAL VOTESNO CASTING VOTE010203040506070809SHARED TABLEONE ORG · ONE VOTE3 CIVIL SOCIETY5 INDEPENDENT1 STEWARD · NO CASTING VOTE
Nine equal seats form one shared table: three civil society, five independent, and one steward without a casting vote.

Charter principles

Five commitments, written before there is anything to capture.

Institutional design is easiest to guarantee while the production registry is empty.

01

Vendor-neutral

No company controls the rules, registry, or marks.

02

Royalty-free

No fees, NDA, or patent toll to implement.

03

One org, one vote

Hyperscaler and nonprofit carry equal voting weight.

04

Civil-society seats

Three of nine committee seats are reserved.

05

Transparent RFCs

Every substantive change is debated in public.

Stewardship handover

Founder stewardship is a phase, not a permanent position.

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Specification and coalition formation

Q3 2026 targetRatification

Charter adopted and v1 frozen

At ratificationTrust Committee

Nine equal seats steer changes

Held in reserveFoundation transfer

Institutional home when warranted

Trust Committee

Nine seats. One vote each.

Three seats are reserved for civil society. The steward holds one seat and no casting vote.

01Civil societyreserved
02Civil societyreserved
03Civil societyreserved
04Safety appone vote
05Implementerone vote
06Platformone vote
07Policyone vote
08Academicone vote
09Stewardone vote

Change control

Normative text has a visible path.

Minor editorial fixes move quickly. Substantive changes require open review and a recorded vote.

01Draft→
02Public RFC→
03Working group→
04Committee vote→
05Ratified

Institutional participation

Help design the institution before ratification.

Open seats are available across platform, implementer, policy, academic, and civil-society roles.

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