Where things stand
For one that came in on a bundle and isn’t listed above yet.
Open a dispute
Four steps: one question first, then what it’s about, then what happened from your side, then everything as it stands before you sign. Your words are sealed to the other person’s key before anything is recorded.
The obligation, settlement, compact, reservation or decision it’s about, by its record identifier. It stays exactly as it was signed.
Their identifier, as they presented it to you.
From their device, shown in Vouch. Your words are sealed to this key before they’re recorded.
A dispute nobody closes simply lapses on this day. It never runs forever.
Ask to talk
The first stage, and for most disputes the last: the two of you talking. The ask travels sealed, person to person, and no body’s record ever sees it.
From their device, shown in Vouch.
Even one line is enough. It’s sealed to their key before it’s recorded.
If you’ve been asked
Mediation, if you both ask
The grant has to be in this device’s record, so every check below can be read off it.
A circle, last of all
Never the first stage. A facilitator convenes it under the same narrow grant, and only after writing down a judgement about the power between the parties.
The grant has to be in this device’s record, so every check below can be read off it.
Repair
A repair is words you both sign: what will be done, a day you both look at how it went, and a day the agreement ends on its own. It changes nothing about the record it concerns.
Propose a repair
In words both of you will sign. These go in the record readable, unlike a statement.
The day you both look at how it went.
After the review date. The agreement lapses on this day with no action from anyone.
Sign a repair the other person proposed
Take it with you
Everything works with no network. A bundle is a file you can carry on a memory stick or send however you like; the other device checks every signature for itself.
Your whole record — your events and your petnames — as one file. No keys ever leave this device.