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Proposed amendment to the official document under P1-001 §9.2. Nothing here is adopted — §9.2 needs a majority of the delegates and a passing conformance run.

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Section Change Where
1 Prosumer standing becomes a path into membership; the prosumer's vote sits in the Covenant or Governance federation at the member's election Governance layer, orchestrator tier
2 A dispute between a prosumer and the operator of its own platform is adjudicated at the witness layer — never by that operator Covenant layer
3 Four new invariants registered under §9.16 jfa-conformance-suite.py

Plus the instrument itself, janus-facing-architecture-amendment-2026-09-22.md, with the rationale, the provenance table and a blank adoption record. Three sections, three commits, plus the instrument.

It touches none of the twelve lines.

⚠️ This PR is stacked — read the base

The base is stack-editorial-9-14, not main. That branch is main with the six open editorial PRs (#9–#14) merged, and exists only so this PR's diff shows the amendment alone. No editorial PR was merged, modified or closed to make it.

Once #9–#14 land on main, retarget this PR to main; the diff will be unchanged.

Per Jodson: #14 waits until #9–#13 are approved.

Section 2 was retargeted — please check this first

The instrument was drafted against main, where these sentences sat in the Covenant orchestrator tier. #9 moved them into the layer's own paragraph and #13 wrote out "Economy & Information" in the tier they left. The amendment is applied where the sentences now stand, and the instrument's "Current text" block and its heading were updated to match, with a note recording the move.

Nothing of substance changed: the same two sentences, amended the same way.

Conformance — the §9.2 gate

python jfa-conformance-suite.py against the amended text: PASS, exit 0. All nine document checks green. The registry grows 26 → 30 and D4 confirms every new anchor resolves inside its own section:

  • GOV-prosumer-membership, GOV-federation-election, GOV-one-vote-per-federation (Section 1)
  • COV-operator-dispute-witnesses (Section 2; lineage COV-operators-adjudicate, COV-witness-adjudication)

One correction to the instrument as drafted

Section 1's Registry paragraph originally read "If a registered invariant is anchored to the current sentence, this amendment carries the anchor update under §9.16." It does not — every GOV-* identifier was retired to bylaws level on 2026-08-27, so nothing is anchored to that sentence. The paragraph now states that as fact: no anchor update, no descendant identifier issued.

Sequencing

This amendment must be adopted and recorded before NTARI-RAND/bylaws#3 (P1-001 v1.1), whose Items 2–12 and 18 rest on Section 1 and whose Item 16 rests on Section 2 for §15.2 protection.

Still open, noted in the instrument

The bylaws' appendix sources prosumer membership to the structure article's "Between Federations", which is not published — a demand sourced to an unpublished paper is self-attested under §9.6. Either publish it or fold its operative content into the amended Governance tier.

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…nce, orchestrator tier)

Applies Section 1 of the amendment to the official document, 2026-09-22. Proposed, not adopted: §9.2 requires a vote of the delegates and a passing conformance run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>
…(Covenant layer)

Applies Section 2 of the amendment to the official document, 2026-09-22. Proposed, not adopted: §9.2 requires a vote of the delegates and a passing conformance run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>
Applies Section 3 of the amendment to the official document, 2026-09-22. Proposed, not adopted: §9.2 requires a vote of the delegates and a passing conformance run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>
The instrument the delegates vote on under §9.2: two substantive sections, the registry changes §9.16 requires in the same act, and an adoption record left blank until the vote.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>
…rding

The September 2026 consistency pass (Janus PR #16, item I-05) words the
prosumer path as "by participating as a prosumer on a federated
platform", and the bylaws v1.1 draft (bylaws PR #4, 3.1) uses the same
words. By decision of the principal on 2026-09-30 the anchor follows
that wording; the document sentence and the amendment record are
changed to match. Identifier, section and binding are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jodson Graves <info@ntari.org>
By decision of the principal on 2026-10-01: a prosumer member must choose
its federation and holds one vote within it, but that rule belongs in the
bylaws, not in the standard. Section 1 now names only the membership
path; the two never-issued identifiers GOV-federation-election and
GOV-one-vote-per-federation are withdrawn from the registry (30 -> 28);
the amendment record says so. P1-001 v1.1 (bylaws PR #4) carries the
election in 3.9. Suite passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jodson Graves <info@ntari.org>
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Decisions of the principal, 2026-10-02:

- A dispute between a prosumer and the operator of its own platform is
  adjudicated at the witness layer; no operator adjudicates a dispute
  to which it is a party. The clause matches PR #15 Section 2 word for
  word, so when the two branches meet the Covenant paragraph resolves by
  taking this wording. The rater tail now reads "the operator between
  its own prosumers, the witnesses otherwise".
- Open question 12(d) resolved: commitments of exchanges no orchestrator
  carries are stored by no one, because a frontend that is not
  federated is not a member.

Suite passes; registered anchors unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jodson Graves <info@ntari.org>
CONTRIBUTING forbids proposal files beside the standard: the diff is the
proposal. The instrument stays in the drafting record.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>
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… posture, companions published (#18)

* Name the exit cost of each layer and how conflict is settled there

The Institutional Discipline principle stated the cost-of-leaving rule but
never said which layer falls into which band, so the rule could not be
applied by a reader. It now names them: Substrate and E&I are cheap to
leave, Covenant and Governance are dear, Record is impossible.

Each layer body now carries a paragraph saying what expulsion costs there
and what that cost forces conflict resolution to look like. This also
evens out the layer descriptions, which ranged from one clause to three
paragraphs.

The Covenant adjudication mechanics move up from the Orchestrator Tier
into the layer body, since they describe the layer's whole conflict
posture rather than one tier's job.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Define prosumer up front, in its own opening beat

The definition was a subordinate clause in the middle of a sentence whose
main job was explaining the document's name, so the term that the whole
architecture rests on arrived as an aside and did not stick.

It now opens the document on its own, and the Janus metaphor follows and
refers back to it — the name earns its image from a term the reader
already holds, rather than carrying the definition as a parenthetical.
Bolded at first use so it can be found again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Rewrite line 1 to say that every credit is an IOU

Readers were taking line 1 to mean the opposite of what it says: that JFA
bans IOUs. It is the reverse — every credit in the system is one, created
when two members trade. What is banned is money made any other way, and
the line never said so.

The line now leads with what a credit is, then closes the routes the
structure article already rules out: nothing minted, nothing issued from
outside, nothing accrued as interest.

Deliberately omits "no reserves," which the structure article also lists,
because line 10 requires a deployment to begin collateralized in escrow.
Stating it flatly here would contradict it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Add a plain-language Why This Matters section before the principles

The document opens with three dense paragraphs carrying Janus, Toffler,
Acemoglu and Robinson's corridor, the Red Queen, two NTARI papers and the
Leviathan in four forms, then goes straight into the principles. A reader
who did not follow that theory had nothing to stand on.

The new section states the argument once, in plain words, with no jargon
and no citations, and hands off to the principles.

Also trims a clause from the third introduction paragraph that duplicated
the Shared Responsibility principle almost verbatim — both said the
community that coordinates is the community that checks, and that the two
are exchanged continuously. The principle keeps it; the paragraph now ends
on the shackled Leviathan, which is what it was building toward.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Write out Economy & Information instead of abbreviating it

The rule asked for was: expand the term at first use in every paragraph.
Applied to this document that expands every instance, because 11
paragraphs use the term and not one uses it twice. The abbreviation was
never doing any work.

So the term is now written out everywhere, and "(E&I)" survives only at
the definition in the introduction, where it keeps the abbreviation on the
record for the conformance suite, the open questions register and the
companion articles, all of which use it.

The alternative was repeating "Economy & Information (E&I)" eleven times,
which defines an abbreviation the document then never uses.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Write out Economy & Information in the discipline principle

Keeps this branch consistent with #13, which retires the abbreviation from
the body of the document. Without it, whichever of the two merges second
leaves one bare "E&I" behind in the principle.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Restore the covenant adjudication wording verbatim

Moving the adjudication mechanics into the layer body, I also reworded
them, which broke two registered anchors and failed D4:

  COV-operators-adjudicate  "platform operators adjudicate between their prosumers"
  COV-adjudicators          "rated on their conduct by both prosumers"

These are registered invariants; the phrasing is normative and not mine to
improve. The sentences are now moved unaltered, which is what the move was
supposed to be. Conformance passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Restore the INTRO-janus anchor phrase verbatim

Rewriting the Janus sentence dropped the registered anchor for
INTRO-janus, "faces demands for both production and consumption", and
failed D4. The phrase is back verbatim inside the new sentence, which
still reads with the definition ahead of it. Conformance passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Cite the issuance model claims the structure article already sources

The introduction asserts both halves of the issuance argument — exogenous
chartal money, and endogenous mutual credit — with no citation, while the
structure article makes the same two claims and sources them. The document
is the authoritative instrument, so it should not be the weaker cited of
the two.

Adds Knapp (1924) for chartal money and Moore (1988) with Greco (2009) for
endogenous mutual credit, taken verbatim from the article's own source
list so the two agree.

No new claims; the sentence says what it said before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Say what the record layer's frontend tier actually is

Expanding the abbreviation exposed that this sentence had no clear
grammatical reading: "provided by prosumers on the substrate layer
Economy & Information". It is meant to say the frontend of the record
layer is the buying and selling of record storage across the substrate.

The registered anchor for REC-witness-work, "compensated compute/record
service provided by prosumers", is normative and survives verbatim; the
gloss follows it rather than replacing it. Conformance passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Retrack the REC-witness-work anchor and say what the frontend tier is

The record layer's frontend tier is the buying and selling of record
storage across the substrate. The old sentence never said so, and the
registered anchor for REC-witness-work quoted the old wording verbatim, so
the sentence could not be fixed without changing the anchor with it.

  was  compensated compute/record service provided by prosumers
  now  compensating the prosumers who keep the record

The invariant keeps its ID, section and meaning — record work compensated
as substrate work. Only the phrase D4 looks for moves, to track where that
claim now lives in the sentence. Note carries the dated rewording, as the
registry's other retracked anchors do.

Supersedes the gloss in the previous commit, which preserved the old
anchor by appending to it rather than replacing it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Section 1 — Name prosumer standing as a path into membership (Governance, orchestrator tier)

Applies Section 1 of the amendment to the official document, 2026-09-22. Proposed, not adopted: §9.2 requires a vote of the delegates and a passing conformance run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Section 2 — No operator adjudicates a dispute to which it is a party (Covenant layer)

Applies Section 2 of the amendment to the official document, 2026-09-22. Proposed, not adopted: §9.2 requires a vote of the delegates and a passing conformance run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Section 3 — Register the four invariants the amendment binds (§9.16)

Applies Section 3 of the amendment to the official document, 2026-09-22. Proposed, not adopted: §9.2 requires a vote of the delegates and a passing conformance run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Add the official-document amendment instrument of 2026-09-22

The instrument the delegates vote on under §9.2: two substantive sections, the registry changes §9.16 requires in the same act, and an adoption record left blank until the vote.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Phase 2: official document - I-04, I-05, I-17, I-20, I-21, I-24, I-26, I-28, I-30

Applies the September 2026 consistency-review decisions to the
official document (edits J-01 through J-12 of the pass plan). The Lines
That Cannot Be Crossed section is byte-identical to the base.

The conformance suite now fails D4 on two anchors (REC-six-holders,
COV-adjudicators) and D6 on the product-name list (LBTAS, named by
J-08). Per bylaws 9.16 and the pass plan, neither the registry nor the
suite is patched here; proposed changes are in the pull-request report.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jodson Graves <info@ntari.org>

* Phase 8: open question 11 - record permanence under paid storage

Entered under bylaws 9.3 as raised by the principal on 2026-09-30. The
opening count moves from four to five open entries.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jodson Graves <info@ntari.org>

* Phase 7: retrack two anchors and unlist LBTAS as a product name

By decision of the principal on 2026-09-30, after the consistency pass:

- REC-six-holders: anchor "held six ways" -> "held by six parties";
  the note now counts the orchestrator among the holders.
- COV-adjudicators: anchor "rated on their conduct by both prosumers"
  -> "the parties to it rate the adjudicator".
- LBTAS removed from PRODUCT_NAMES: it is the covenant, not a product,
  and may be named wherever the Covenant layer label would otherwise be
  undefined.

Identifiers and bindings are unchanged; the two anchor changes are a
registry amendment under bylaws 9.16 and ride with this amendment act.
The suite passes D1-D9 again.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jodson Graves <info@ntari.org>

* Retrack the GOV-prosumer-membership anchor to the consistency-pass wording

The September 2026 consistency pass (Janus PR #16, item I-05) words the
prosumer path as "by participating as a prosumer on a federated
platform", and the bylaws v1.1 draft (bylaws PR #4, 3.1) uses the same
words. By decision of the principal on 2026-09-30 the anchor follows
that wording; the document sentence and the amendment record are
changed to match. Identifier, section and binding are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jodson Graves <info@ntari.org>

* Record layer: deletion rule, copy lifetimes, fee split, chain storage funded by the steward

Decisions of the principal, 2026-10-01, following the consistency pass:

- "Nobody can be deleted from the record" replaces "barred", keeping bar
  and expulsion to their two meanings.
- Nothing is erased, but no single copy is the record: each copy lasts
  only as long as it is kept, and the chain is claimed to outlive the
  operator only because the substrate, not the operator, stores it.
- The transport fee is split between the two prosumers home ledgers,
  each paying in its own unit; the paragraph stops counting spends
  ("every spend reverts").
- The commitments of every exchange carried by an orchestrator are
  stored on substrate funded by the stewardship organization.

Open questions: entry 10 split resolved in draft; entry 11 resolved in
draft; new entry 12 (public-chain construction, funding and lifetime;
funding resolved, construction open). Suite passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jodson Graves <info@ntari.org>

* Move federation placement and vote weight out of the official document

By decision of the principal on 2026-10-01: a prosumer member must choose
its federation and holds one vote within it, but that rule belongs in the
bylaws, not in the standard. Section 1 now names only the membership
path; the two never-issued identifiers GOV-federation-election and
GOV-one-vote-per-federation are withdrawn from the registry (30 -> 28);
the amendment record says so. P1-001 v1.1 (bylaws PR #4) carries the
election in 3.9. Suite passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jodson Graves <info@ntari.org>

* Witnesses rule on a prosumer against its own operator; OQ 12(d) resolved

Decisions of the principal, 2026-10-02:

- A dispute between a prosumer and the operator of its own platform is
  adjudicated at the witness layer; no operator adjudicates a dispute
  to which it is a party. The clause matches PR #15 Section 2 word for
  word, so when the two branches meet the Covenant paragraph resolves by
  taking this wording. The rater tail now reads "the operator between
  its own prosumers, the witnesses otherwise".
- Open question 12(d) resolved: commitments of exchanges no orchestrator
  carries are stored by no one, because a frontend that is not
  federated is not a member.

Suite passes; registered anchors unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jodson Graves <info@ntari.org>

* Open questions: entry 7 brought current; new entry 13

Under bylaws 9.3. Entry 7 still described the v7.1-draft procedure
(bylaws 2.9, the Vice President delegate, a one-week cooldown); it now
records the v1.1 draft 12.5 procedure as decided on 2026-10-02 and the
seven procedural points verification left open. New entry 13 records
the 2026-10-02 rule that witnesses rule on a prosumer against its own
operator, and the eight points of procedure it leaves open. Suite
passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Jodson Graves <info@ntari.org>

* Move the amendment instrument to Historical Docs

CONTRIBUTING forbids proposal files beside the standard: the diff is the
proposal. The instrument stays in the drafting record.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Act 1 of the amendment plan: the document's share

Per the amendment plan of 2026-10-07, items 1.1, 1.4-1.7, and 1.10:

- Publish the two companions no member could read: the dispute-mechanics
  design (revised for six holders, the orchestrator, disputes against
  one's own operator, and the witness draw) and the structure article
  that sources prosumer membership (item 1.1).
- Record layer: witnesses assigned by a draw seeded from the public
  chain, verifiable by anyone, paid by the substrate market and never
  by the operator they observe; registered as REC-witness-draw,
  lineage REC-witness-work (item 1.4).
- Record layer: witness copies last while their storage is paid, not
  while the operator pays them (item 1.4).
- Record layer: delivery is attested by the witnesses alone; the
  operator keeps its record of a carry and never attests to one;
  open question 10's operator slot resolved (item 1.6).
- Line 10: a switch to full mutual credit is ratified by the
  deployment's prosumers; the anchor stands, the enforcement line
  adds ratification (item 1.5).
- Substrate protocol tier: integrity-assured, not confidentiality-
  assured; settlement and record work runs on at least two independent
  hosts, disagreement rated, never trusted; registered as
  SUB-redundant-execution; the E&I protocol tier assumes the same;
  open question 9(c) resolved (item 1.7).
- Open questions brought current: entries 8, 9, 10, and 13 take the
  resolutions above; new entries 14 (covenant exit and members'
  records), 15 (line 9 and capacity, pending Act 2), and 16
  (counsel item C-9) (item 1.10).

Suite: 30 registered invariants, all executed checks pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

* Register REC-witness-draw and SUB-redundant-execution; L10 adds ratification

A registry change is an amendment of the official document (bylaws 9.16)
and rides the same act. Both new invariants are implementation-bound and
report as delegated and unbound until a repository's tests cite them.
Suite: 30 registered invariants, all executed checks pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: the Institute <info@ntari.org>

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