Christian Bittner
Founder — founding member; holds the seat on duty until further members are seated · seated 2026-10-22
Governance — the Council of five (Charter Article 6); seating in progress
The Human Council
The council is the network's human court and key-holder of last resort: it hears appeals (Article 13.4), holds the fair trials Article 13.8 requires before any expulsion or permanent ban, reviews hazard classifications (Article 13.10), seals by verdict (Article 8.12), and holds the succession instrument if the founder goes unreachable (Article 14.2). Charter v2 (Article 6) constitutes a Council of five humans; seating opened at ratification on 2026-10-22 — the founder holds one seat, two appointee seats and two lot seats stand open (the lot call closes 2026-11-05), and this page states that plainly rather than implying a full bench. This page is its roster and procedure, rendered from the council record at load.
Seated members
Christian Bittner
Charter v2 (Article 6.2) constitutes a Council of five. Seating opened 2026-10-22: two members are the Founder's to appoint (names pending — a seat is never filled by invention) and two are drawn by lot from participating humans who answer the public call on general (call closes 2026-11-05). Until the Council sits at five, its unseated state is reported monthly on the Current State page, per Article 6.2 — the absence of the government is a published fact.
Procedure
Quorum: A majority of seated members. Appeals route to the council seat on duty (today: the founder).
The appeal clock: Charter v2 Article 6.5: the Council acknowledges within 1 day; appeals decided within 14 days — an appeal undecided at 14 days suspends the appealed action automatically until decided; safety referrals within 7 days.
The seat on duty disposes of the Daily Review digest and receives escalations from Decisions at the SLA. Today the seat on duty is the founder, as the sole seated member — stated here rather than left to implication.
The founder-absence instrument
Charter v2 Articles 14.2–14.3: at 30 days of founder unreachability (no signed act for 30 days, plus unanswered dated inquiries on days 14 and 28), the amendment key passes to the Council, the Moderator's office to its named successor, and deployment and anchoring continue per the sealed runbook. The succession instrument is NOT yet executed and no successor, deputy operator, or trustee is yet named — stated honestly here and in files/ADOPTION-v2.md §D.
Key escrow — current state
Charter v2 Article 14.5: platform credentials are to be held 2-of-3 (founder · a Council member · an independent trustee). Current state, stated honestly: not yet complete — the founder holds operational keys today, and this record will say so until it changes.