Roadmap

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Phase 0: Design Foundation

Prepare the repository, glossary, principles, and proposal process.

Initial work should keep the repository simple: Markdown, YAML, Issues, Pull Requests, Proposals, and Decisions.

Completion Criteria

• Vision, Principles, Architecture, and Roadmap exist.
• Glossary has initial terms.
• Proposal and Decision processes have started.
• Non-goals and Threat Model exist.
• Code of Conduct and Safety Policy exist.
• Initial module READMEs exist.
• Founder non-privilege is recorded as a Decision.
• Research Index and Issue Drafts exist.

Phase 1: Initial Organization

Start with a small organization and governance experiments.

Record what works, what fails, and which risks need further review.

Completion Criteria

• Initial operating records exist.
• Small cooperation, mutual aid, or life-support experiments are recorded.
• Important decisions are recorded as Decisions.
• Roles and authority are documented.

Phase 2: Module Experiments

Experiment with identity, economy, welfare, governance, arbitration, and infrastructure.

These experiments should remain small, voluntary, reversible, and reviewable.

Reputation and Audit are also included as independent modules.

Norms, Public Safety, and Federation are included as initial modules with explicit safety boundaries.

Completion Criteria

• Each module has clear scope and out-of-scope boundaries.
• Reputation has safeguards against discrimination and hierarchy.
• Audit separates public information from protected information.
• Economy and Welfare experiments identify expert-review requirements.
• Module responsibility creep is reviewed through the Threat Model.
• Norms does not become an illegal replacement for state law.
• Public Safety does not become police replacement or vigilante structure.
• Federation does not become a central ruling organization.

Phase 3: Federation

Allow multiple organizations to cooperate through shared protocols.

Federation should preserve local autonomy, exit, and forkability.

Completion Criteria

• Multiple organizations can interoperate through shared protocols.
• Local autonomy and forkability remain possible.
• Inter-organization reputation, audit, and arbitration principles exist.
• Data portability and exit procedures are documented.

Phase 4: Global Cooperation Infrastructure

Create cross-border cooperation, trust, welfare, education, and economic layers.

Completion Criteria

• Cross-border participation and translation workflows function.
• Legal-system differences are handled explicitly.
• Life access, reputation, arbitration, and audit can work across regions.
• Safety review prevents unnecessary hostility toward states or society.

Phase 5: Reduced State Dependency

Create a world where people can cooperate and live without constantly depending on state boundaries.

This phase should happen through usefulness and gradual adoption, not coercion.

Completion Criteria

• More cooperation, welfare, trust, arbitration, education, and infrastructure functions are available outside state-only dependency.
• People can belong to multiple communities and organizations.
• Exit, forkability, privacy, and safety boundaries remain intact.
• Adoption remains based on usefulness rather than coercion.