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The public record

Everything OVAIC decides and publishes is recorded in public, and nothing is rewritten.

1. Why a record

A body that checks others must itself be checkable. Every text on this site, every change and the reason for it are kept in a public repository, like code. Mistakes are corrected by adding a correction, never by erasing what was there.

2. How a change is made

• Anyone may propose a change as a pull request or an issue.
• Each proposal stays visible with its discussion, whether it is accepted or not.
• Changes to the statutes, the charter and the fees are decided by the bodies named in the statutes. The record shows who decided and when.
• Candidate protocols and candidate infrastructures are proposed the same way, with test cases, so that everyone can see how a candidate came to be and why it was accepted or set aside.

3. Where this comes from

The aim goes back to 2015 and Decipial, a set of decentralised principles. Methods and technologies have changed since then. The aim has not: to make information accessible to every person, to make protected information accessible to every person, and to guard it like the apple of one's eye.

4. Dignity and the right to information

The German Basic Law begins: "Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority." (Article 1). It guarantees the right "to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources" (Article 5). The Universal Declaration of Human Rights grants everyone the freedom to seek, receive and impart information (Article 19). States and communities must protect this, build on it and help. OVAIC contributes by making claims checkable, in public, for everyone.

5. A message to those who come after us

We live in an abundance that earlier generations built. We want to pass on a message with it: live better, more consciously and with more grace, and create good for the whole community of civilisation. The public record is how we keep our word.

6. Status

The public repository of OVAIC: https://github.com/Ovaic-Org/ovaic.org

Proposals: https://github.com/Ovaic-Org/ovaic.org/issues and https://github.com/Ovaic-Org/ovaic.org/pulls