This device
Compacts
Open-ended, mutual, and carrying transit: each body helps clear the other’s obligations with third parties. A compact stands only while both bodies’ consent stands.
Propose one
Work with a compact
The compact, as it stands
Ratify it
Ratifying is your body’s own decision, reached under its own rule. Consent runs to a date and is renewed by a fresh act, never by itself.
Activate, renew, or leave
Activation names both ratifications. To renew, each body ratifies again first with a new date; renewal then names those fresh consents. Leaving needs nobody’s agreement.
Check an act against it
Amend it
An amendment re-writes both lists. It binds only once each body has ratified it, and it lapses when that consent runs out, leaving the original in force.
If it’s breached: the ladder
Bridges
One job, with a group you don’t otherwise agree with, ending on a date. No transit: nobody else’s obligations cross it.
Propose one
Check an act against one
Charters, side by side
Both charters in full: purpose, principles as separate claims, how each decides, and the decisions it has taken. Whether you should work together is your judgement, not this software’s.
Where cooperation is piling up
Networks left alone concentrate. This panel measures the graph of standing compacts and bridges and says where it’s piling up. It never acts on what it finds: what to do about it is a decision for the bodies, usually in mediation.
A broken compact: open a dispute
It starts between the two stewards, with the statement sealed so only they can read it. The compact stands as written — annotated, never rewritten.
On the record
Every act between bodies this device holds, newest first. Each was signed by a person for a body and recorded by Federate.
Take it with you
Your whole record — every event and your own names for people — as one file. Yours to keep, move, or walk away with.
Different apps. One ecosystem. Owned by none.