{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.wm-org-006","code":"wm-org-006-membership","url":"https://ver.cy/models/wm-org-006-membership/","name":"Membership","alternateNames":["O3"],"kind":"world-model","status":"published","version":"0.3.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"World Models","category":"Society, people and institutions","entryKind":"relationship","plane":"","domain":["SOC.ORG.MEM"],"industry":["Cross-industry"],"navPath":"NAV.SOC.ORG.MEM","tags":["membership","soc.org.mem"],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"Owns membership relationship identity, member and organization bindings, governing scheme and type, admission basis and decision effect, role bindings, validity and standing, term references, renewal, suspension, reinstatement and ending events, party assertions, proof projections, privacy and interoperability while external systems own agents, organizations, roles, posts, activities, policies, payments, subscriptions, credentials, access grants, decisions and evidence objects.","purpose":"Represent one governed, qualified relationship between a member agent and an organization or group, including admission, roles, validity, standing, terms, lifecycle, evidence and privacy without depending on storage or interface format.","scope":{"in":["Membership identity, member and organization or group references, membership scheme, type, classification and non-equivalence boundaries","Application, nomination, eligibility, authority, admission, role bindings, validity, standing, renewal, suspension, reinstatement, resignation, termination and revocation","Terms, duties, fee and benefit references, assertions, evidence, attestations, directories, privacy, retention, disputes, provenance and exchange"],"out":["Employment, office-holding, citizenship, licensing, subscription, participation, affiliation and access-entitlement master lifecycles","Member, organization, group, role, post, activity, project, policy, payment, credential, access-grant, decision and evidence master records","Universal eligibility, admission, disciplinary, due-process, fee, privacy or retention rules, or automatic authority for an agent to admit, suspend, revoke or disclose membership"],"boundaries":[{"neighbor":"Employment","distinction":"Employment is a work relationship with labour-status, term and assignment semantics; Membership is governed belonging under a membership scheme and never imports employment classification or lifecycle."},{"neighbor":"Role, Post and Office","distinction":"A role is a reusable concept, a post or office can exist independently and a membership role binding states what role a member holds through this relationship and when."},{"neighbor":"Participation and Affiliation","distinction":"Participation is involvement in an activity and affiliation can be informal or broadly asserted; canonical Membership requires a qualified scheme, parties, basis, standing and provenance."},{"neighbor":"Subscription, Payment and Benefit","distinction":"Recurring service and financial records may be conditions or consequences of membership but retain separate identity, state and execution."},{"neighbor":"Credential and Directory Entry","distinction":"A credential, badge, roster or listing is an issuer-controlled proof or projection whose status may diverge from the authoritative membership relationship."},{"neighbor":"Access Entitlement and Policy","distinction":"Membership may be an input to permission decisions, but policy rules, grants, evaluation and enforcement remain external and membership never guarantees access."}]},"distinguishingFeatures":["A relationship between a member and an organization under a governing scheme, not employment or office-holding.","Admission, standing, suspension and ending are recorded as events with their basis.","Differs from a subscription, which is a purchase, and from an access entitlement, which may follow from it.","Proofs of membership are projections, not the membership itself."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"relationship-identity-parties-and-scheme","name":"Relationship identity, parties and scheme","description":"Identifies one membership and the member, organization or group and governing membership scheme.","layers":[{"id":"membership-master-identity","name":"Membership master identity","description":"Stable relationship identity, source systems, aliases and successor lineage.","findings":[{"id":"authoritative-membership-identifier-and-master-system","name":"Authoritative membership identifier and master system","description":"The stable relationship identifier, issuer, namespace, master system, local keys and resolution status.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for authoritative membership identifier and master system?","id":"authoritative-membership-identifier-and-master-system-q01","kind":"identity"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes authoritative membership identifier and master system, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"authoritative-membership-identifier-and-master-system-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may authoritative membership identifier and master system be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"authoritative-membership-identifier-and-master-system-q03","kind":"validation"}]},{"id":"duplicate-merge-split-reissue-and-successor-lineage","name":"Duplicate, merge, split, reissue and successor lineage","description":"Reconciliation and successor rules that preserve cited identities and prior assertions.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for duplicate, merge, split, reissue and successor lineage?","id":"duplicate-merge-split-reissue-and-successor-lineage-q01","kind":"lifecycle"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes duplicate, merge, split, reissue and successor lineage, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"duplicate-merge-split-reissue-and-successor-lineage-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may duplicate, merge, split, reissue and successor lineage be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"duplicate-merge-split-reissue-and-successor-lineage-q03","kind":"validation"}]}]},{"id":"parties-type-and-governing-scheme","name":"Parties, type and governing scheme","description":"Member and organization bindings plus profile-qualified classification.","findings":[{"id":"member-agent-and-organization-or-group-bindings","name":"Member agent and organization or group 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lifecycle?","id":"member-agent-and-organization-or-group-bindings-q03","kind":"validation"}]},{"id":"membership-type-profile-classification-and-scheme-version","name":"Membership type, profile, classification and scheme version","description":"Versioned type and profile concepts, scheme authority, applicability and class-distinguishing criteria.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for membership type, profile, classification and scheme version?","id":"membership-type-profile-classification-and-scheme-version-q01","kind":"classification"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes membership type, profile, classification and scheme version, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"membership-type-profile-classification-and-scheme-version-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may membership type, profile, classification and scheme version be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"membership-type-profile-classification-and-scheme-version-q03","kind":"validation"}]}]}]},{"id":"admission-eligibility-and-authority","name":"Admission, eligibility and authority","description":"Explains how membership is proposed, evaluated and admitted under a governing basis.","layers":[{"id":"application-nomination-and-eligibility","name":"Application, nomination and eligibility","description":"External request, sponsorship and eligibility assertions linked to this relationship.","findings":[{"id":"application-nomination-invitation-and-sponsor-reference","name":"Application, nomination, invitation and sponsor reference","description":"References the initiating request or act, nominator, sponsor, requested class, time and provenance.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for application, nomination, invitation and sponsor reference?","id":"application-nomination-invitation-and-sponsor-reference-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes application, nomination, invitation and sponsor reference, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"application-nomination-invitation-and-sponsor-reference-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may application, nomination, invitation and sponsor reference be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"application-nomination-invitation-and-sponsor-reference-q03","kind":"validation"}]},{"id":"eligibility-criteria-evidence-exception-and-expiry","name":"Eligibility criteria, evidence, exception and expiry","description":"Versioned criteria, evidence, evaluator, exception authority, decision scope and freshness without 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rejection and its relationship effect.","findings":[{"id":"governing-charter-bylaw-rule-resolution-or-agreement","name":"Governing charter, bylaw, rule, resolution or agreement","description":"Typed references to the constitutive or contractual basis, authority, jurisdiction, version and precedence scope.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for governing charter, bylaw, rule, resolution or agreement?","id":"governing-charter-bylaw-rule-resolution-or-agreement-q01","kind":"authority"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes governing charter, bylaw, rule, resolution or agreement, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"governing-charter-bylaw-rule-resolution-or-agreement-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may governing charter, bylaw, rule, resolution or agreement be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"governing-charter-bylaw-rule-resolution-or-agreement-q03","kind":"validation"}]},{"id":"admission-rejection-decision-conditions-and-effective-time","name":"Admission or rejection decision, conditions and effective time","description":"Decision maker, authority, reason, conditions, appeal state and distinct decision, effective and knowledge times.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for admission or rejection decision, conditions and effective time?","id":"admission-rejection-decision-conditions-and-effective-time-q01","kind":"decision"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes admission or rejection decision, conditions and effective time, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"admission-rejection-decision-conditions-and-effective-time-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may admission or rejection decision, conditions and effective time be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"admission-rejection-decision-conditions-and-effective-time-q03","kind":"validation"}]}]}]},{"id":"roles-scope-and-participation-context","name":"Roles, scope and participation context","description":"Qualifies which roles are held through membership and where they apply.","layers":[{"id":"role-and-post-binding","name":"Role and post binding","description":"Membership roles, scopes and optional post references with their own intervals.","findings":[{"id":"role-concept-scope-unit-and-validity","name":"Role concept, scope, unit and validity","description":"Versioned role reference, organizational or domain scope, effective interval and profile-specific cardinality.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for role concept, scope, unit and validity?","id":"role-concept-scope-unit-and-validity-q01","kind":"relationship"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes role concept, scope, unit and validity, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"role-concept-scope-unit-and-validity-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may role concept, scope, unit and validity be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"role-concept-scope-unit-and-validity-q03","kind":"validation"}]},{"id":"role-held-through-membership-versus-independent-post","name":"Role held through membership versus independent post","description":"Distinguishes a member's role binding from an independently existing post that can be vacant or held by another route.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for role held through membership versus independent post?","id":"role-held-through-membership-versus-independent-post-q01","kind":"classification"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes role held through membership versus independent post, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"role-held-through-membership-versus-independent-post-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may role held through membership versus independent post be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"role-held-through-membership-versus-independent-post-q03","kind":"validation"}]}]},{"id":"participation-affiliation-and-non-equivalence","name":"Participation, affiliation and non-equivalence","description":"References activities and adjacent relationships without conflating them with membership.","findings":[{"id":"participation-activity-project-and-contribution-references","name":"Participation, activity, project and contribution references","description":"Time-qualified links to externally mastered activities, projects and contributions associated with membership.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for participation, activity, project and contribution references?","id":"participation-activity-project-and-contribution-references-q01","kind":"relationship"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes participation, activity, project and contribution references, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"participation-activity-project-and-contribution-references-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may participation, activity, project and contribution references be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"participation-activity-project-and-contribution-references-q03","kind":"validation"}]},{"id":"employment-office-subscription-citizenship-licence-and-access-boundary","name":"Employment, office, subscription, citizenship, licence and access boundary","description":"Typed non-equivalence and optional relationship links that prevent inference of membership from neighboring statuses.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for employment, office, subscription, citizenship, licence and access boundary?","id":"employment-office-subscription-citizenship-licence-and-access-boundary-q01","kind":"interoperability"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes employment, office, subscription, citizenship, licence and access boundary, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"employment-office-subscription-citizenship-licence-and-access-boundary-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may employment, office, subscription, citizenship, licence and access boundary be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"employment-office-subscription-citizenship-licence-and-access-boundary-q03","kind":"validation"}]}]}]},{"id":"standing-validity-and-lifecycle","name":"Standing, validity and lifecycle","description":"Represents current and historic membership condition, intervals and governed transitions.","layers":[{"id":"validity-state-and-observation","name":"Validity, state and observation","description":"Relationship validity intervals, asserted standing and observed 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validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"proposed-pending-active-suspended-ended-rejected-and-revoked-state-q03","kind":"validation"}]},{"id":"valid-decision-event-observation-and-knowledge-time","name":"Valid, decision, event, observation and knowledge time","description":"Separate time axes and intervals for relationship effect, decisions, events, observations and when assertions became known.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for valid, decision, event, observation and knowledge time?","id":"valid-decision-event-observation-and-knowledge-time-q01","kind":"temporal"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes valid, decision, event, observation and knowledge time, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"valid-decision-event-observation-and-knowledge-time-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may valid, decision, event, observation and knowledge time be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"valid-decision-event-observation-and-knowledge-time-q03","kind":"validation"}]}]},{"id":"renewal-suspension-and-reinstatement","name":"Renewal, suspension and reinstatement","description":"Non-terminal changes and their effect on role, right and duty bindings.","findings":[{"id":"renewal-extension-revalidation-and-lapse","name":"Renewal, extension, revalidation and lapse","description":"Renewal basis, decision, changed conditions, new validity, grace period and lapse effect with predecessor lineage.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for renewal, extension, revalidation and lapse?","id":"renewal-extension-revalidation-and-lapse-q01","kind":"lifecycle"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes renewal, extension, revalidation and lapse, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"renewal-extension-revalidation-and-lapse-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may renewal, extension, revalidation and lapse be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"renewal-extension-revalidation-and-lapse-q03","kind":"validation"}]},{"id":"suspension-restriction-reinstatement-and-restored-standing","name":"Suspension, restriction, reinstatement and restored standing","description":"Authority, reason, due process, affected rights and duties, review date, remedy and reinstatement effect.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for suspension, restriction, reinstatement and restored standing?","id":"suspension-restriction-reinstatement-and-restored-standing-q01","kind":"process"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes suspension, restriction, reinstatement and restored standing, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"suspension-restriction-reinstatement-and-restored-standing-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may suspension, restriction, reinstatement and restored standing be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"suspension-restriction-reinstatement-and-restored-standing-q03","kind":"validation"}]}]},{"id":"resignation-termination-and-revocation","name":"Resignation, termination and revocation","description":"Terminal or successor events, reasons, challenge and surviving 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superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"resignation-expiry-termination-removal-and-revocation-basis-q03","kind":"validation"}]},{"id":"challenge-appeal-remedy-successor-and-tombstone","name":"Challenge, appeal, remedy, successor and tombstone","description":"Contest status, review authority, decision and remedy, reinstatement or successor identity and durable minimum tombstone.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for challenge, appeal, remedy, successor and tombstone?","id":"challenge-appeal-remedy-successor-and-tombstone-q01","kind":"decision"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes challenge, appeal, remedy, successor and tombstone, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"challenge-appeal-remedy-successor-and-tombstone-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may challenge, appeal, remedy, successor and tombstone be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"challenge-appeal-remedy-successor-and-tombstone-q03","kind":"validation"}]}]}]},{"id":"terms-duties-fees-and-benefits","name":"Terms, duties, fees and benefits","description":"Links governed terms and economic or non-economic consequences without importing policy, payment or entitlement execution.","layers":[{"id":"terms-rights-duties-and-constraints","name":"Terms, rights, duties and constraints","description":"Versioned rule and policy bindings that qualify membership.","findings":[{"id":"term-version-precedence-acceptance-and-amendment","name":"Term version, precedence, acceptance and amendment","description":"Applicable term sources, version, precedence, party notice or acceptance, effective time and immutable amendment lineage.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for term version, precedence, acceptance and amendment?","id":"term-version-precedence-acceptance-and-amendment-q01","kind":"constraint"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes term version, precedence, acceptance and amendment, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"term-version-precedence-acceptance-and-amendment-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may term version, precedence, acceptance and amendment be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"term-version-precedence-acceptance-and-amendment-q03","kind":"validation"}]},{"id":"permission-prohibition-duty-and-compliance-reference","name":"Permission, prohibition, duty and compliance reference","description":"ODRL or profile-specific policy links with assigner, assignee, target, action, 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and arrears reference be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"fee-assessment-invoice-payment-waiver-and-arrears-reference-q03","kind":"validation"}]},{"id":"benefit-service-resource-and-access-entitlement-reference","name":"Benefit, service, resource and access-entitlement reference","description":"Links externally mastered benefits and grants with scope, validity and governing term without treating access as membership proof.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for benefit, service, resource and access-entitlement reference?","id":"benefit-service-resource-and-access-entitlement-reference-q01","kind":"relationship"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes benefit, service, resource and access-entitlement reference, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"benefit-service-resource-and-access-entitlement-reference-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may benefit, service, resource and access-entitlement reference be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle?","id":"benefit-service-resource-and-access-entitlement-reference-q03","kind":"validation"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-privacy-dispute-and-trust","name":"Evidence, privacy, dispute and trust","description":"Maintains assertions, attestations, conflicts and privacy-safe projections.","layers":[{"id":"assertions-evidence-and-quality","name":"Assertions, evidence and quality","description":"Attributable source statements, observations and reconciliation.","findings":[{"id":"member-organization-sponsor-issuer-and-authority-assertions","name":"Member, organization, sponsor, issuer and authority assertions","description":"Parallel statements with actor, role, basis, 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lifecycle?","id":"member-organization-sponsor-issuer-and-authority-assertions-q03","kind":"validation"}]},{"id":"evidence-attestation-freshness-quality-and-reconciliation","name":"Evidence, attestation, freshness, quality and reconciliation","description":"Source records, method, issuer, digest, status observation, freshness, conflict and explicit reconciliation result.","questions":[{"text":"What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for evidence, attestation, freshness, quality and reconciliation?","id":"evidence-attestation-freshness-quality-and-reconciliation-q01","kind":"quality"},{"text":"Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes evidence, attestation, freshness, quality and reconciliation, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence?","id":"evidence-attestation-freshness-quality-and-reconciliation-q02","kind":"evidence"},{"text":"How may evidence, attestation, freshness, quality and 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