Gap Register
What we have not decided yet
The Founder’s Journal records what we’ve decided. The Gap Register records what we have not — classified by tier, owned, and tracked in the open. A handful of entries are phased: their existence is public but specifics are kept in internal records until they’re ready to publish.
Tier 1 — Existential
Open questions that block launch or threaten the project if unresolved.
- G-001Creator, drafting TBDTrust & Safety frameworkFoundation for harassment, illegal content, minor safety, doxxing, and harmful content policy. Also a governance question about whether T&S is Creator reserve power, separate body, or under Arbiter review.Open — not started
- G-002Creator + outside counselIP / copyright postureStance on usable IP, DMCA compliance, contributor license, Commons publication license (CC-BY-SA?), and rights-holder takedown handling.Open — not started
- G-003Creator + specialized outside counselLegal entity wrapperFoundation+PBC is the current lean. Need-vs-Greed and acquisition commitments must be expressible as enforceable corporate-document language.Open — framework articulated, lean toward Foundation+PBC
- G-004CreatorSybil resistance / account integrityAccount verification model. Multiple accounts per person, deceased contributors, account portability, account recovery.Open — not started
- G-015CreatorContent authoring / editor interfaceHow Fact entry, Commons proposals, LoreLines, and Home content are authored. AI-assisted by default, with structured-data entry that doesn't feel like a tax form.Open — not started
- G-016CreatorAd / monetization posture & structural commitmentsSpecific waterfall percentages, ad envelope details (formats, density caps, ad-free page types), AI licensing specifics, B2B revenue posture.Partially decided — see Entries 004, 005
- G-024PhasedCreator (initial picks); ongoing succession TBDMission stewardship board compositionBoard size, composition mix, term limits, succession, removal, compensation, conflict-of-interest policy. Existence public; specific candidates internal.Open — newly identified
Tier 2 — Structural
Important to the system but not launch-blocking. Resolution scheduled.
- G-005CreatorAI policyAI-generated content policy: contributor use of LLMs, AI-content labeling, training-data licensing, AI-as-contributor.Open — not started
- G-006Creator + Council (once formed)Platform economicsSpecific waterfall percentages, Franchise distribution formulas, R&D pool governance, free-rider treatment.Partially decided — see Entry 004
- G-007CreatorOnboarding & Power bootstrapVisitor → reader → LoreLines contributor → Commons/Home contributor → Team member ladder. Mentorship structures and how new accounts surface.Open — partial framing (LoreLines as low-friction first contribution)
- G-008Creator (initial draft); Council (ongoing)Constitutional amendment processSpecific thresholds for stacked-supermajority + cooldown + Foundation board ratification process from Entry 014.Decided in principle — see Entry 014
- G-017CreatorVandalism and spam handlingAuto-flagging, rate limits, new-account restrictions, automated reversion, the role of Franchise Team in moderation.Open — not started
- G-018CreatorRevision history, rollback, page protectionVersion history and rollback authority across surfaces; protection levels; touches Commons proposal model.Open — not started
- G-019CreatorData portability & contributor export rightsContributor export rights — what data, in what formats, under what license. Probably constitutionally guaranteed.Open — not started
- G-020CreatorFranchise Team power limits & intra-Team appealsHard limits on Franchise Team authority, intra-Team appeal pathway short of Arbiter escalation, term limits and successor selection.Open — not started
- G-021CreatorNetwork-level cross-Franchise sanction policyWhen a ban in one Franchise extends across the Network. Who decides, with what threshold, with what appeal.Open — not started
- G-023CreatorPublisher / platform identity stanceCharter-level commitment that OLN is a platform — OLN does not produce editorial content competing with Franchises.Open — not started
- G-025CreatorLoreLines governance specificsPersistence under canon change, Credit weights, correction-to-Commons promotion, citation-in-Commons mechanics, Featured LoreLines, type-specific governance.Open — partial framing in Entry 010
- G-026CreatorFact graph data quality & source attributionSource attribution per Fact, QA pipeline for imports, confidence scoring for AI-extracted Facts, conflict resolution when sources disagree.Open — newly identified
- G-030PhasedCreator + BrandonMemory Alpha migration architecturePipeline architecture for wikitext-to-structured-data extraction. Existence public; specifics internal until coordinated with Memory Alpha admins.Open — newly identified
- G-033CreatorPower dilution rates & contribution-category enumerationSpecific dilution rate, full enumeration of contribution categories, treatment of sudden growth events, process for adding new categories.Open — partial framing in Entries 011, 012
- G-034CreatorVoting mechanism parametersLock durations, conviction multipliers, return-timing asymmetry, per-class lock mechanics, quadratic voting parameters for constitutional matters.Open — partial framing in Entry 013
- G-035CreatorComment / Q&A model for Journal and Register entriesHow readers respond to Journal and Register entries — what the default visibility is, who sees what when, and how exchanges become public.Open — design in progress; mutual-consent default proposed
- G-036CreatorReaction system — gaming resistance and weightingOperational parameters for the reaction system: reaction vocabulary, weighting between anonymous and registered, gaming resistance, and the connection to Sybil resistance broadly.Open — depends on Entry 015
- G-037Creator + BrandonPre-launch credit accrual mechanicsHow much credit pre-launch registered users accrue, what actions earn it, and how it converts into Power at launch — all intentionally not pre-committed.Open — accrual rate intentionally not pre-committed
- G-038Creator + BrandonRoadmap surface design and credit calibrationHow the public roadmap is structured, how credit values are set per project, how outside contributors claim and submit work, and how founder time is logged against the same denomination as contributor work.Open — read-only capture surface ships first; calibration and contribution gateway deferred
Tier 3 — Known unknowns
Worth scheduling. Often deferred to a body that doesn't exist yet.
- G-009CreatorFranchise creation processWho can create a Franchise, squatting prevention, seed requirements, approval process, name disputes.Open — not started
- G-010CreatorDiscoverability & recommendationHomepage, search, recommendations — what's surfaced and by what signal? Pure engagement metrics would recreate the problem we're trying to solve.Open — not started
- G-011CreatorEmergency powersWho can take the site offline in a crisis, freeze a Franchise mid-dispute, suspend an Arbiter accused of wrongdoing — explicit holders and explicit limits.Open — not started
- G-012CreatorCanon version control over timeRetcons, canon snapshots, canon drift over years. How a Franchise expresses 'canon as of 2028 was X, canon as of 2032 is Y'.Open — not started
- G-013CreatorCommons proposal workflow specificsSLA, reviewer assignment, rejection reasons, resubmission rules, appeal timing — implementation details under the constitutional commitment.Open — not started
- G-014CreatorAccessibility & localizationLanguage support, RTL scripts, screen-reader support for the Fact graph, translation of canon, WCAG compliance. Easy to defer and easy to regret.Open — not started
- G-022CreatorAcquisition operational integration playbookGiven a passing strategic case (per Entry 006), what good integration looks like — culture preservation, Fact graph merge, URL/identity migration.Open — narrowed scope
- G-031CreatorDomain canonicalizationPursue acquisition of the most valuable domain, accept the hyphenated variant (with SEO and memorability cost), or use the unusual TLD (workable).Open — newly identified
- G-032Creator + Council (once formed)Studio dashboards / B2B revenue postureVersions that work (anonymized aggregate, opt-in panels with revenue back to participants) vs. versions that recreate the Fandom problem (sell everything).Open — deferred