Ontology
What the words mean
A concept is an idea, like Lease. An instance is a particular Thing, like one site's Lease. A record describes either. These pages show concepts.
Entrenched concepts change only by a Court verdict. Ordinary ones change through normal Ontology work.
Change rule: entrenched · ordinary
Nine: proposed · not captured
Has relationship: distinct-from · grants · is-a · part-of · requires
Entrenched
Concept
Agency
A Thing's capacity to choose and act, represented through its intentions, decisions and commitments.
Concept
Commandment
An act no Thing may do to another Thing, judged only on public acts or a party's testimony.
Concept
Commons
The shared behavior, interfaces and institutions no single Realm governs, including the Creator's.
Concept
Consent
A recorded, revocable decision by an owner to allow a specific connection or act.
Concept
Corpus
The registry and data ownership boundary of what exists for a Thing: its content and state, preserved and portable.
Concept
Court
The institution of the Commons that hears motions and records verdicts under the Covenant.
Concept
Covenant
What a Realm accepts at birth and what theCy promises back: the Promise, Rights, Commandments, the Agency ladder and the Court.
Concept
Exit
A Thing's right to leave theCy whole, with every byte in a readable form.
Concept
Observe
To read what a Realm has published.
Concept
Owner
The one party that speaks for a Thing.
Concept
Publish
To cause something to cross a Realm's own boundary: content served to a visitor, a message to another Thing, an Offer, a Lease request or a connection.
Concept
Realm
A Thing with identity and Corpus semantics; resources, placement and hosting are provided by theCy.
Concept
Responsibility
Answering for a result.
Concept
Right
A guarantee that binds theCy and dOG toward every Thing.
Concept
Thing
Anything treated as an identifiable subject of description and relationships, including a Concept, data artifact, process or physical resource.
Ordinary
Concept
Assignment
The Agency record by which a principal delegates bounded work to a worker, with reserved decisions and an expiry.
Concept
Authority
Permission for a particular effect.
Concept
Capability
An ability to achieve a stated outcome under defined conditions.
Concept
Cell
A hosting and execution domain that admits and signs Leases.
Concept
Concept
A defined idea used to understand, describe or classify something.
Concept
Estate
The registry of what exists for a Thing, projected as a versioned, generated description.
Concept
Intent
A consumer owner's signed decision to consume an Offer for a named Thing.
Concept
Lease
The bilateral fact that an addressed Cell independently admitted an Intent against an Offer.
Concept
Offer
A Provider's signed statement of what it will serve and on what terms.