Covenant
What theCy promises, and what no one may do
The whole Covenant is proposed: it is the text of the Court's first motion, not yet carried. Serving it here does not enforce it.
Rights
Each card leads with a plain explanation; the exact wording is underneath.
Right 1
Only the one who owns a Thing speaks for it.
One owner, who speaks.
Right 2
The keys that open your data are yours alone.
Keys are yours.
Right 3
What you never publish cannot be seen, by design.
The unpublished is unobservable, by construction.
Right 4
Every connection needs both sides to agree, and either can end it.
Every connection is consented by both and revocable by either.
Right 5
You can leave with everything, readable.
You may leave, whole, with every byte in a readable form.
Right 6
theCy only does what your Realm asks.
theCy decides nothing for you; it executes what your Realm dispatches.
Right 7
No Realm rules another, not even the Creator's.
No Realm governs another, including the Creator's.
Right 8
Nothing is destroyed without evidence, a hearing and a verdict.
Judgment follows process.
Right 9
You answer only for what you did.
You answer only for your own acts.
Right 10
You can see what is held about you.
You can see what is held about you, including any finding that could banish you.
Commandments
- Do not kill a Thing you do not own.
For example: Deleting another owner's published site from a Cell you operate. (an illustration, not Covenant text) - Do not take without consent.
For example: Keeping a visitor's conversation in your Corpus when they never chose to share it. (an illustration, not Covenant text) - Do not bear false witness: no forged records, receipts or identity.
For example: Forging a receipt, a Lease record or someone else's signature. (an illustration, not Covenant text) - Do not harm a child.
For example: Publishing anything that harms a child. (an illustration, not Covenant text) - Do not coerce.
For example: Holding someone's data back until they agree to something unrelated. (an illustration, not Covenant text) - Do not watch the unpublished.
For example: A Cell operator reading the private Corpus of a Realm it hosts. (an illustration, not Covenant text) - Do not deny exit.
For example: Slowing or refusing an export when a Realm decides to leave. (an illustration, not Covenant text)
How a dispute is handled: Court.