Architecture

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World Foundation Design uses a federated architecture, not a single centralized organization.

Its architecture separates social functions into modules and connects them through open protocols. This makes it easier to improve, replace, review, and fork parts of the system without forcing every participant into one implementation.

Core Modules

• Identity
• Reputation
• Economy
• Welfare
• Governance
• Arbitration
• Infrastructure
• Audit
• Norms
• Public Safety
• Federation

Each module should have a clear responsibility and should not accumulate excessive authority.

This design begins with areas that can be built outside the state, such as cooperation, education, welfare, trust, and infrastructure.

The initial modules are Identity, Reputation, Economy, Welfare, Governance, Arbitration, Infrastructure, Audit, Norms, Public Safety, and Federation.

Reputation handles trust, contribution, and history, but it must not fix human worth or become a broad exclusion mechanism.

Audit supports transparency and corruption resistance, but it must not become surveillance. Public information and protected information must be separated.

Norms handles shared rules, but it is not an illegal replacement for state law.

Public Safety handles violence prevention and reporting boundaries, but it is not a police replacement, armed group, or vigilante structure.

Federation handles inter-organization interoperability, but it is not a world government or central ruling organization.

Design Direction

This design separates functions into modules and connects them through open protocols. This keeps the system easier to improve, replace, audit, and fork.

Relationships between modules are references, cooperation, and verification, not domination. Modules should interoperate without taking over each other’s responsibilities.

For example, Reputation must not unilaterally control access to Economy or Welfare. Audit must not become a universal right to monitor everything.

Relationship with State Functions

This design does not attempt to replace all state functions at once.

It begins with areas that can be explored through voluntary cooperation, such as documentation, shared knowledge, mutual aid, governance experiments, trust, welfare, education, and infrastructure.

Over time, useful cooperation infrastructure may reduce dependency on state boundaries and centralized institutions.