occ / governance

How trust works

OCC is an open network. Anyone can participate. But not all knowledge is equal. The following rules define how packs earn trust, how disputes are resolved, and who is accountable for what.

Capital can fund the commons.
It cannot govern the truth layer.

01 / principles

01

Anyone can create a pack.

02

Network-approved packs require formal review.

03

Reviewers cannot approve their own packs.

04

Sources must be public and traceable.

05

Every approved pack must have a version history.

06

Packs can be disputed, deprecated, or revoked.

07

Money can fund work and infrastructure, but cannot determine knowledge approval.

08

The founder has no special vote on knowledge approval.

02 / roles

User0 rep

Anyone who signs in via GitHub. Can vote on packs.

Contributor1 rep

Earned automatically on first pack submission. Can propose and submit packs.

Pack Creator25 rep

Earned when first pack is approved. Can submit formal reviews on packs they did not create.

Registry Steward500 rep

Reached automatically or by nomination. Can approve, deprecate, or revoke packs. Accountable for registry integrity.

Roles are assigned automatically when rep thresholds are reached. They never decrease. Registry Steward can also be nominated manually.

03 / pack lifecycle

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Approved packs can move to DISPUTED, DEPRECATED, or REVOKED. Revocation is public and permanent in the transparency log.

04 / future

OCC is designed to evolve toward an international foundation with transparent governance, public review records, open infrastructure, and accountable stewardship. The governance model described here is the first iteration — intended to be simple, honest, and replaceable by a more formal structure as the project grows.