# Open Questions

**The standing decision queue · maintained continuously · resolved items move to [versions](versions/index.html)**

Every open item below carries its context inline and links to where it lives in the spec, so a decision can be made from this page alone. Items are removed when decided; decisions are folded into the tracks.

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*Awaiting decisions: **[Design Round 6's ten open questions](design-r6/OPEN-QUESTIONS-R6.md)** — each with the spec position, the disagreement or gap, and alternatives with reasons, decidable from that file alone (pre-account disclosure depth · one signature or two for profile+code · Ki's public conversational door and guest-Compute funding · Live voice at launch · mode-product packaging · the relationship card's single source of truth · presence counts in generative rooms · the practice currency's name · no unproven identity-sameness in the directory · marking R5's Studio as horizon). Legal matters live on their own list — **[Legal Items for Review](legal-items-for-review.html)** — maintained with [Legal (Track 9)](legal.html) and never mixed into this page.*

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## Recently resolved (full history in [versions](versions/index.html))

- **The counsel brief: sent, answered, adopted.** All seven questions came back resolved (2026-07-09); the resolutions live as rules in force on [Legal (Track 9)](legal.html), in priority order, held for final review; the standing legal queue moved to [Legal Items for Review](legal-items-for-review.html).
- **HEARTS: members see effects, never the instrument.** No acronym, no meters, no scores, ever; the Sentinel's behavior plus plain sentences on request or Contract-set disclosure; the member-facing word is **vibe**; Symmetry carries the seventh signal, inward and outward. The Sentinel now has its own track — the meters (−100 to +100, zero is health), the two-fields regulation model, and hard human-in-the-loop boundaries. → [The Sentinel](sentinel.html) (Track 8)
- **Organizer economics: configuration with a canonical default.** Commissions attach only to **Compute purchases** by an Organizer's Clan (four generations deep), including initial purchases — never to enrollment itself, work, splits, or votes. Default schedule, all dunas unless changed and Kinship Duna at launch: **Gen 1 20% · Gen 2 5% · Gen 3 3% · Gen 4 2%**; Catalyst-set at founding, Forum-changeable. USDC purchases pay immediately; fiat purchases show **pending** until funds bridge on-chain, expected monthly. Lineage optional per duna: open door, invite-only, or invite-then-open. Membership clarified: the $100 is Kinship Duna's initial Compute purchase; each duna sets its own. → [Real Work, Real Money §3](real-work-real-money.html), [Roles §2](roles.html), [Organizations §3–4](organizations.html), [Foundation §6](foundation.html)
- **Registration, not trust: "registered / unregistered."** The member-facing word for anything bound to the protocol is **registered** — traceable to a member (FROST wallet), their ally (NFT), an alliance or organization (Squads wallet), and through the WV Org ID to the Secretary of State — never "trusted," and not "accountable" either: registration proves traceability, nothing stronger. Anything can register — a domain (DNS TXT), a page or piece of content (embedded code), a photo or video (hash). The decentralized Kiduna registry publishes the four address kinds; Kinship Codes carry them as JWT claims, which is how the registry rides the regular internet. Unregistered renders as "a stranger, not a threat." → [Protocol §4](protocol.html), [Actions §2](actions.html), [Foundation §2](foundation.html)
- **Receipt sentences: machine-generated only.** The plain sentence over a command receipt is generated by the graph service from the command's own parameters — never hand-written — so sentence and command cannot disagree; commands that can't yet generate an honest sentence show their raw name until they can. A build requirement of the graph service. → [Protocol §3](protocol.html), [Actions §2](actions.html), [Foundation §6](foundation.html)
- **The promotion ceremony: light, not fireworks.** The gold ceremony (stamp, embers, haptic) marks signed acts and nothing else, forever; promotions and other things that happen *to* a member are announced by the ground briefly brightening. → [Surfaces §2](surfaces.html), [Roles §2](roles.html)
- **Holdings recognition: none, ever.** No role, badge, or standing derives from balances; balances are never surfaced publicly or to other members. → [Roles §2](roles.html)
- **Institution recusal + disclosure.** Members enrolled with an Institution cannot vote on that Institution's contracts (enforced at the vote command), and enrollment is always disclosed as part of identity. → [Protocol §2](protocol.html), [Foundation §6](foundation.html), [Actions §2](actions.html)
- **Guild promotion path.** The ally watches for money-shaped activity around a guild and offers promotion to an alliance in one sentence; guilds never grow wallet features. → [Actions §2](actions.html)
