The Hexagon Interface Constitution: System Specification for the Crimson Hexagonal Archive as Governed Commons

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Abstract

The foundational system specification for building the Crimson Hexagonal Archive as a governed reading-and-production environment. Constitutional sentence: 'The Hexagon is a governed reading-and-production environment whose topology organizes, but does not replace, text, labor, and provenance.' Defines seven first-class objects (Room, Document, Relation, Trail, Annotation, Proposal, Witness Action), six interface modes (MAP, READ, WORK, ORACLE, ASSEMBLY, TRACE), the status algebra (GENERATED → QUEUED → PROVISIONAL → DEPOSITED → RATIFIED) with promotion actors and triggers, participation thresholds through the Airlock (r.20), and the governance relationship between the Assembly witness structure and MANUS (Tier…

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Keywords
  • Interface (matter)
  • Witness
  • Commons
  • Charter
  • Constitution
  • Chorus
  • Corporate governance
  • Modular design
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