Governance

Transparent. Multi-stakeholder. Anti-capture.

Governance DNA

Best-of-breed from organizations that got it right: Mozilla (dual entity model — nonprofit foundation + commercial corporation as siblings), Apache Software Foundation (meritocracy, lazy consensus, community-driven development), OpenID Foundation (intellectual property rights policy, working group structure), Trust over IP Foundation (governance metamodel compatibility), and the IETF (rough consensus, running code, open participation).

Conflict of Interest — Six Mechanisms

  1. 1

    Annual written disclosure of all commercial interests

  2. 2

    Meeting recusal on interested votes

  3. 3

    Related-party transactions: disclosure + fair market rate + disinterested approval

  4. 4

    Spec neutrality: no change may advantage a specific implementation

  5. 5

    Trademark licensing: identical terms for all implementers

  6. 6

    Independent oversight: the Comisaria can investigate any suspected COI

Licensing & Intellectual Property

CC BY 4.0 for all documentation and specifications. Apache 2.0 for all code. Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) over Contributor License Agreement (CLA). Trademarks held by TrustLayer Foundation. Royalty-free patent license: all contributors grant a perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, royalty-free patent license for any patents necessarily infringed by their contributions. No standard may require implementation of proprietary infrastructure.

Transparency

Annual declarations per statute, aligned with national and international governance best practices. Financial transparency reports. All governance proceedings public. The Consejo Directivo publishes governance reports as determined by the Asamblea General de Asociados.

Governance Documents