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World Foundation Design Documents

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This directory contains the core design documents for World Foundation Design.

The Japanese documents in docs/ja/ are the initial source of truth. English documents are prepared so international collaboration can grow over time.

Design Structure

Section titled “Design Structure”

The core design connects purpose, principles, structure, modules, safety boundaries, operations, transition, and research.

flowchart TB
  Index["World Foundation Design"]
  Vision["Purpose<br/>Vision"]
  Principles["Principles<br/>voluntary participation / exit / forkability"]
  Architecture["Structure<br/>federated architecture"]
  Modules["Modules<br/>separated responsibilities"]
  Safety["Safety Boundaries<br/>Non-goals / Safety / Threat Model"]
  Operation["Operation<br/>Issue / Proposal / Decision"]
  Roadmap["Transition<br/>Roadmap"]
  LifeAccess["Life Access<br/>Welfare / Economy / Commons"]
  Translation["Translation<br/>Japanese source and English documents"]
  Research["Research<br/>assumption checks"]

  Index --> Vision
  Vision --> Principles
  Principles --> Architecture
  Architecture --> Modules
  Architecture --> Roadmap
  Modules --> LifeAccess
  Modules --> Safety
  Modules --> Operation
  Operation --> Safety
  Roadmap --> Research
  Translation --> Operation
  Research -. "checks assumptions" .-> Principles
  Safety -. "prevents drift" .-> Operation

  click Index "/en/docs/" "Design documents"
  click Vision "/en/docs/00-vision/" "Vision"
  click Principles "/en/docs/01-principles/" "Principles"
  click Architecture "/en/docs/02-architecture/" "Architecture"
  click Modules "/en/modules/" "Modules"
  click Safety "/en/docs/05-threat-model/" "Threat model"
  click Operation "/en/proposals/" "Operation"
  click Roadmap "/en/docs/03-roadmap/" "Roadmap"
  click LifeAccess "/en/docs/06-life-access-sustainability/" "Life access"
  click Translation "/en/docs/07-translation-status/" "Translation"
  click Research "/en/research/topics/" "Research"

Detail Paths

Section titled “Detail Paths”
Area Start here More detail
Purpose 00-vision.md 00-world-design-overview.md
Principles 01-principles.md 08-non-coercive-adoption.md
Structure 02-architecture.md 01-cooperation-foundation-layers.md
Modules modules/en 02-module-relationships.md, 09-expanded-module-map.md
Safety Boundaries 04-non-goals.md, 05-threat-model.md SAFETY.md, 05-risk-and-safety-loops.md
Operation proposals/en, decisions/en 03-governance-process.md, governance module
Transition 03-roadmap.md 04-transition-roadmap.md
Life Access 06-life-access-sustainability.md 07-life-access-model.md, welfare module, economy module
Translation 07-translation-status.md 06-multilingual-document-flow.md, glossary
Research research/en/index.md research/en
Section titled “Related Diagrams”

Documents

Section titled “Documents”
  • 00-vision.md: Vision
  • 01-principles.md: Design principles
  • 02-architecture.md: Architecture
  • 03-roadmap.md: Roadmap
  • 04-non-goals.md: What this design does not aim to do
  • 05-threat-model.md: Risks such as corruption, domination, misuse, legal conflict, and surveillance
  • 06-life-access-sustainability.md: Life access and resource allocation sustainability
  • 07-translation-status.md: Translation status policy

Translation Policy

Section titled “Translation Policy”

The English documents are intentionally concise at this stage. They should preserve the intent of the Japanese source documents and avoid language that makes this design look like a ruling authority, closed community, or coercive movement.

Important proposals and decisions can be translated later when they become relevant to international collaboration.