Layer 0 · Identity

Scope Declaration

  • Layer: 0 — Identity & Scope
  • Status: Stub — not yet adopted
  • RCOS reference: §2.2, §2.5

In-Scope Assets

All assets governed by the community. Anything not listed here is treated as out of scope.

  1. The RCOS specification and all versioned artifacts in this repository
  2. The shared treasury (currently held in the Safe multi-sig wallet)
  3. The ecohubsOS platform (os.ecohubs.community)
  4. The EcoHubs website (ecohubs.community)
  5. The RCOS hosted website (blueprint.ecohubs.community)
  6. The EcoHubs brand, domain names, public channels, and social media accounts
  7. Pilot community resources explicitly designated as community-governed

In-Scope Decision Domains

Domains of decision-making authority under collective control.

  1. Governance rules and decision processes (Layer 2)
  2. Membership rules, states, and admission (Layer 1)
  3. Treasury and shared resource allocation (Layer 3)
  4. The RCOS specification and its evolution
  5. EcoHubs-owned platforms, websites, and public channels
  6. Support and facilitation offered to existing and emerging communities applying RCOS (meetings, guidance, resources)
  7. Partnerships, external collaborations, and use of the EcoHubs brand

In-Scope Activities and Responsibilities

Activities and responsibilities the community collectively governs.

  1. Maintaining and evolving the RCOS specification
  2. Reviewing and admitting new members
  3. Managing and reporting on the shared treasury
  4. Operating and maintaining community platforms and websites
  5. Facilitating, supporting and documenting pilot communities
  6. Publishing learnings, failures, and adaptations openly
  7. Stewarding the EcoHubs brand, public presence, and social media accounts
  8. Researching and developing new approaches, tools, and methods to make regenerative communities more accessible, resilient, and replicable — including software development and applied experimentation

Explicitly Out of Scope

Must be explicitly listed. The community must not exercise authority over anything listed here.

  1. Underlying server infrastructure, hosting accounts, and third-party service contracts
  2. Personal income, private finances, and private bank accounts of members
  3. Private relationships and personal living arrangements of members (except where safety-critical conditions apply as defined in Layer 4)
  4. Off-network projects and businesses that do not use EcoHubs assets or operate under EcoHubs governance
  5. The internal governance of independent communities that have adopted RCOS — EcoHubs stewards the standard, not the communities using it

Ratification Record

  • Adopted:
  • Decision type: Constitutional
  • Version:
  • Decision record:

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