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Membership

vr.wm-org-006 · wm-org-006-membership

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.

World Models Society, people and institutions SOC.ORG.MEM
Bundle → Layer → Finding → QuestionsClassifiersWhat it isWhy it existsDistinguishing featuresWhat robots and AI may and may not doMoral aspectsOwnersLinks to other meta-modelsIdentity and identifiersDirect propertiesRecognitionCapabilities and actionsHazards and failure modesStandards and interfacesContext of useSources

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7 bundles · 16 layers · 32 findings · 96 questions

Relationship identity, parties and scheme Identifies one membership and the member, organization or group and governing membership scheme.

Membership master identity

Stable relationship identity, source systems, aliases and successor lineage.

Authoritative membership identifier and master system

The stable relationship identifier, issuer, namespace, master system, local keys and resolution status.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for authoritative membership identifier and master system? identity
  2. 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? evidence
  3. How may authoritative membership identifier and master system be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Duplicate, merge, split, reissue and successor lineage

Reconciliation and successor rules that preserve cited identities and prior assertions.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for duplicate, merge, split, reissue and successor lineage? lifecycle
  2. 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? evidence
  3. How may duplicate, merge, split, reissue and successor lineage be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Parties, type and governing scheme

Member and organization bindings plus profile-qualified classification.

Member agent and organization or group bindings

Typed references to the member agent and admitting organization or governed group with identity authority and intervals.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for member agent and organization or group bindings? relationship
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes member agent and organization or group bindings, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may member agent and organization or group bindings be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Membership type, profile, classification and scheme version

Versioned type and profile concepts, scheme authority, applicability and class-distinguishing criteria.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for membership type, profile, classification and scheme version? classification
  2. 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? evidence
  3. 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? validation
Admission, eligibility and authority Explains how membership is proposed, evaluated and admitted under a governing basis.

Application, nomination and eligibility

External request, sponsorship and eligibility assertions linked to this relationship.

Application, nomination, invitation and sponsor reference

References the initiating request or act, nominator, sponsor, requested class, time and provenance.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for application, nomination, invitation and sponsor reference? provenance
  2. 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? evidence
  3. 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? validation

Eligibility criteria, evidence, exception and expiry

Versioned criteria, evidence, evaluator, exception authority, decision scope and freshness without importing assessments.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for eligibility criteria, evidence, exception and expiry? validation
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes eligibility criteria, evidence, exception and expiry, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may eligibility criteria, evidence, exception and expiry be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Decision, basis and effective admission

The accountable admission or rejection and its relationship effect.

Governing charter, bylaw, rule, resolution or agreement

Typed references to the constitutive or contractual basis, authority, jurisdiction, version and precedence scope.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for governing charter, bylaw, rule, resolution or agreement? authority
  2. 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? evidence
  3. 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? validation

Admission or rejection decision, conditions and effective time

Decision maker, authority, reason, conditions, appeal state and distinct decision, effective and knowledge times.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for admission or rejection decision, conditions and effective time? decision
  2. 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? evidence
  3. 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? validation
Roles, scope and participation context Qualifies which roles are held through membership and where they apply.

Role and post binding

Membership roles, scopes and optional post references with their own intervals.

Role concept, scope, unit and validity

Versioned role reference, organizational or domain scope, effective interval and profile-specific cardinality.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for role concept, scope, unit and validity? relationship
  2. 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? evidence
  3. 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? validation

Role held through membership versus independent post

Distinguishes a member's role binding from an independently existing post that can be vacant or held by another route.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for role held through membership versus independent post? classification
  2. 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? evidence
  3. 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? validation

Participation, affiliation and non-equivalence

References activities and adjacent relationships without conflating them with membership.

Participation, activity, project and contribution references

Time-qualified links to externally mastered activities, projects and contributions associated with membership.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for participation, activity, project and contribution references? relationship
  2. 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? evidence
  3. 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? validation

Employment, office, subscription, citizenship, licence and access boundary

Typed non-equivalence and optional relationship links that prevent inference of membership from neighboring statuses.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for employment, office, subscription, citizenship, licence and access boundary? interoperability
  2. 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? evidence
  3. 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? validation
Standing, validity and lifecycle Represents current and historic membership condition, intervals and governed transitions.

Validity, state and observation

Relationship validity intervals, asserted standing and observed freshness.

Proposed, pending, active, suspended, ended, rejected and revoked state

Profile-qualified relationship state, source, authority, valid interval, confidence and explicit unknown status.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for proposed, pending, active, suspended, ended, rejected and revoked state? state
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes proposed, pending, active, suspended, ended, rejected and revoked state, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may proposed, pending, active, suspended, ended, rejected and revoked state be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Valid, decision, event, observation and knowledge time

Separate time axes and intervals for relationship effect, decisions, events, observations and when assertions became known.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for valid, decision, event, observation and knowledge time? temporal
  2. 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? evidence
  3. 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? validation

Renewal, suspension and reinstatement

Non-terminal changes and their effect on role, right and duty bindings.

Renewal, extension, revalidation and lapse

Renewal basis, decision, changed conditions, new validity, grace period and lapse effect with predecessor lineage.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for renewal, extension, revalidation and lapse? lifecycle
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes renewal, extension, revalidation and lapse, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. 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? validation

Suspension, restriction, reinstatement and restored standing

Authority, reason, due process, affected rights and duties, review date, remedy and reinstatement effect.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for suspension, restriction, reinstatement and restored standing? process
  2. 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? evidence
  3. 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? validation

Resignation, termination and revocation

Terminal or successor events, reasons, challenge and surviving history.

Resignation, expiry, termination, removal and revocation basis

Initiating actor, basis, authority, notice, effective time, stated reason and distinction among voluntary, automatic and adverse endings.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for resignation, expiry, termination, removal and revocation basis? lifecycle
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes resignation, expiry, termination, removal and revocation basis, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may resignation, expiry, termination, removal and revocation basis be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Challenge, appeal, remedy, successor and tombstone

Contest status, review authority, decision and remedy, reinstatement or successor identity and durable minimum tombstone.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for challenge, appeal, remedy, successor and tombstone? decision
  2. 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? evidence
  3. 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? validation
Terms, duties, fees and benefits Links governed terms and economic or non-economic consequences without importing policy, payment or entitlement execution.

Terms, rights, duties and constraints

Versioned rule and policy bindings that qualify membership.

Term version, precedence, acceptance and amendment

Applicable term sources, version, precedence, party notice or acceptance, effective time and immutable amendment lineage.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for term version, precedence, acceptance and amendment? constraint
  2. 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? evidence
  3. 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? validation

Permission, prohibition, duty and compliance reference

ODRL or profile-specific policy links with assigner, assignee, target, action, constraint and external evaluation evidence.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for permission, prohibition, duty and compliance reference? relationship
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes permission, prohibition, duty and compliance reference, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may permission, prohibition, duty and compliance reference be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Fee, benefit and entitlement references

Economic and service consequences and their independent records.

Fee assessment, invoice, payment, waiver and arrears reference

Links externally mastered fee and payment records and states why they do or do not affect membership standing.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for fee assessment, invoice, payment, waiver and arrears reference? relationship
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes fee assessment, invoice, payment, waiver and arrears reference, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may fee assessment, invoice, payment, waiver and arrears reference be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Benefit, service, resource and access-entitlement reference

Links externally mastered benefits and grants with scope, validity and governing term without treating access as membership proof.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for benefit, service, resource and access-entitlement reference? relationship
  2. 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? evidence
  3. 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? validation
Evidence, privacy, dispute and trust Maintains assertions, attestations, conflicts and privacy-safe projections.

Assertions, evidence and quality

Attributable source statements, observations and reconciliation.

Member, organization, sponsor, issuer and authority assertions

Parallel statements with actor, role, basis, valid and knowledge time, confidence, acknowledgement and contest status.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for member, organization, sponsor, issuer and authority assertions? provenance
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes member, organization, sponsor, issuer and authority assertions, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may member, organization, sponsor, issuer and authority assertions be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Evidence, attestation, freshness, quality and reconciliation

Source records, method, issuer, digest, status observation, freshness, conflict and explicit reconciliation result.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for evidence, attestation, freshness, quality and reconciliation? quality
  2. 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? evidence
  3. How may evidence, attestation, freshness, quality and reconciliation be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Credential, directory and proof projections

Portable and discoverable representations that remain separate from the source relationship.

Verifiable membership credential and status reference

Issuer, subject, schema, validity, evidence, status and terms-of-use references plus privacy and correlation profile.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for verifiable membership credential and status reference? evidence
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes verifiable membership credential and status reference, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may verifiable membership credential and status reference be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Directory listing, badge, roster and minimal verification

Purpose-specific projections, exposed fields, audience, freshness, revocation behavior and non-authoritative status.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for directory listing, badge, roster and minimal verification? access
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes directory listing, badge, roster and minimal verification, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may directory listing, badge, roster and minimal verification be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Privacy, access, correction and retention

Field-sensitive disclosure and durable lawful history.

Existence, role, date, standing and evidence disclosure

Separately classifies the sensitivity, purpose, audience and masking rules for each fact and inference surface.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for existence, role, date, standing and evidence disclosure? privacy
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes existence, role, date, standing and evidence disclosure, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may existence, role, date, standing and evidence disclosure be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Access, correction, restriction, retention, legal hold and deletion

Member and organization rights, steward duties, disputed fields, per-artifact retention and tombstone behavior.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for access, correction, restriction, retention, legal hold and deletion? retention
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes access, correction, restriction, retention, legal hold and deletion, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may access, correction, restriction, retention, legal hold and deletion be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation
Interoperability, governance and agent operations Controls classifications, mappings, validation and safe automated action.

Classification and profile projections

Versioned type, role, state and reason vocabularies and mappings.

Membership, role, standing and reason concept schemes

Pinned concept identifiers, labels, scope notes, hierarchy, authority, version and mapping confidence.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for membership, role, standing and reason concept schemes? classification
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes membership, role, standing and reason concept schemes, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may membership, role, standing and reason concept schemes be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

W3C ORG, credential, policy and domain-profile mappings

Source and target versions, mapping scope, transformed or omitted data, validation and non-round-trip declarations.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for w3c org, credential, policy and domain-profile mappings? interoperability
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes w3c org, credential, policy and domain-profile mappings, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may w3c org, credential, policy and domain-profile mappings be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Agent control and safe operation

Authorized operations, invariants, rollback and audit.

Agent operation authority, purpose and confirmation class

Classifies read, create, admit, suspend, reinstate, terminate, disclose and delete operations as autonomous, propose, confirm or forbidden.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for agent operation authority, purpose and confirmation class? security
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes agent operation authority, purpose and confirmation class, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may agent operation authority, purpose and confirmation class be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Pre-write and post-write validation, conflict and recovery

Identity, party, authority, time, state-transition, policy, privacy, concurrency and rollback checks with immutable audit evidence.

  1. What exact values, references, qualifiers and explicit unknowns must be recorded for pre-write and post-write validation, conflict and recovery? validation
  2. Which member, organization, authority, source and evidence establishes pre-write and post-write validation, conflict and recovery, at what event, valid and knowledge time, and with what confidence? evidence
  3. How may pre-write and post-write validation, conflict and recovery be validated, challenged, corrected, superseded, retained or disclosed without erasing prior assertions or importing a neighboring model's lifecycle? validation

Classifiers Filled

Family
World Models
Category
Society, people and institutions
Entry kind
relationship
Navigation path
NAV.SOC.ORG.MEM
Domain
SOC.ORG.MEM
Industry
Cross-industry
Tags
membershipsoc.org.mem
Also called
O3

What it is Filled

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.

In scope

  • 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 of scope

  • 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

Why it exists Filled

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.

Distinguishing features Filled

  • 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.

What robots and AI may and may not do Filled

Must not

  • Admit, suspend or expel members.
  • Disclose membership of sensitive organizations such as unions, parties or religious groups.
  • Use membership data for purposes the member did not agree to.
  • Treat lapsed payment alone as an end of membership where the scheme requires a decision.

Only with a human decision

  • Admission and expulsion decisions.
  • Disciplinary or appeal processes.
  • Changing scheme rules.

May

  • Record admission, renewal and ending events from the governing body.
  • Verify membership standing for authorized requesters.
  • Remind members of renewals.
  • Issue membership proofs within the scheme rules.

Moral aspects Filled

  • Membership in political, religious or trade union bodies is special category data in many laws.
  • Members facing suspension deserve due process and a chance to be heard.
  • Exclusion from membership can cut people off from rights and community.

Who is affected

  • Members and applicants
  • The organization and its governing bodies
  • Third parties relying on membership proofs

Owners Filled

Steward

Dimension identity, owner, membership registrar, member-rights steward and namespace

Roles

Dimension owner
Own namespace, mastership, delegation, access, retention and federation rules.
Member or member-authorized steward
Attest member-side facts, exercise access and correction rights, acknowledge terms and preserve contested assertions.
Organization or group authority
Own membership scheme, admission and standing authority within charter or mandate.
Membership registrar
Maintain identifiers, party bindings, roles, validity, standing and lifecycle records without importing external masters.
Sponsor, nominator or approver
Provide attributable proposal, sponsorship or decision evidence within delegated scope.
Appeal or review authority
Review eligibility, suspension, removal, revocation and correction disputes independently where policy requires.
Privacy and access steward
Apply purpose limitation, existence privacy, minimum disclosure, correction, retention and security rules.
Independent auditor
Review authority, transitions, attestations, disclosures and provenance without rewriting source evidence.

Links to other meta-models Filled

references

  • Agent, Organization, Group, Role, Post, Activity, Policy, Payment, Subscription, Credential, Access, Decision and Evidence models - Connect governed membership context while retaining external identity, authority and lifecycle.

aligned

  • W3C Organization Ontology - Project qualified member, organization, role and duration relationships while preserving the narrower Vercy boundary.
  • OWL-Time and RFC 3339 - Represent intervals and relations and serialize event timestamps with seconds and explicit UTC offset.
  • ODRL Information Model 2.2 - Reference membership-related permissions, prohibitions, duties and constraints without importing policy evaluation.
  • Verifiable Credentials Data Model 2.0 - Issue portable membership attestations that remain evidence projections with separate issuer, validity and status.
  • LegalRuleML and SKOS - Qualify authority, jurisdiction and rule metadata and version membership, role, standing and reason concepts.

neighbor

  • Employment - 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.
  • Role, Post and Office - 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.
  • Participation and Affiliation - 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.
  • Subscription, Payment and Benefit - Recurring service and financial records may be conditions or consequences of membership but retain separate identity, state and execution.
  • Credential and Directory Entry - A credential, badge, roster or listing is an issuer-controlled proof or projection whose status may diverge from the authoritative membership relationship.
  • Access Entitlement and Policy - Membership may be an input to permission decisions, but policy rules, grants, evaluation and enforcement remain external and membership never guarantees access.

What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled

Identity and identifiers required Filled

  • Authoritative membership master-system identifier qualified by issuer and membership scheme.
  • Governed globally resolvable membership IRI with explicit member and organization references.
  • Adopting-Dimension UUID or ULID when no authoritative external identifier exists.

Direct properties not applicable Not applicable

Not applicable

Institutional or informational subject: no invented physical properties.

Recognition optional Filled

  • A membership names a member, an organization, a scheme or type, a start date and a standing.
  • It is confused with a subscription, a customer account and an access group.

Capabilities and actions required Filled

  • Propose membership: Create a proposed relationship with stable identity, parties, scheme, requested type and explicit unknowns.
  • Evaluate eligibility: Record an attributable eligibility assessment and exceptions without importing the assessment process.
  • Record admission decision: Append authorized admission or rejection with conditions, effect and appeal state.
  • Bind role: Add, change or end a role binding with scope and validity while preserving membership identity.
  • Bind terms: Attach a versioned external term or policy with precedence and applicability.
  • Renew membership: Append renewal, extension or revalidation with changed conditions and a new interval.
  • Suspend or reinstate: Record temporary restriction or restored standing and its effect on roles, rights and duties.
  • End membership: Record resignation, expiry, termination, removal or revocation with basis, notice, challenge and successor.
  • Reconcile assertions: Compare member, organization, issuer and authority assertions and append agreement, disagreement or unresolved state.
  • Issue membership attestation: Create or link a portable proof without treating the credential as the source relationship.
  • Issue minimal membership view: Create a purpose-bound directory, roster or verification projection.
  • Project membership profile: Transform a validated revision into W3C ORG, credential, policy or domain profile with declared loss.

Hazards and failure modes required Filled

  • Exposure of sensitive affiliations.
  • Unfair exclusion through wrong standing records.
  • Forged or stale proofs accepted by third parties.

Standards and interfaces required Filled

  • W3C Organization Ontology org:Membership.
  • W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model 2.0.
  • SCIM 2.0 (RFC 7643) for directory synchronization.
  • schema.org ProgramMembership.

Context of use required Filled

  • The GDPR provides an EU privacy profile and does not create universal global obligations.
  • LegalRuleML supplies legal-rule metadata patterns and does not determine which charter, bylaw or authority is valid in a particular jurisdiction.
  • W3C ORG intentionally uses broad membership semantics, so domain profiles must narrow admission, role, standing and lifecycle rules.

Sources Filled

  1. The Organization Ontology - World Wide Web Consortium
  2. Time Ontology in OWL - World Wide Web Consortium
  3. PROV-O: The PROV Ontology - World Wide Web Consortium
  4. ODRL Information Model 2.2 - World Wide Web Consortium
  5. Verifiable Credentials Data Model v2.0 - World Wide Web Consortium
  6. LegalRuleML Core Specification Version 1.0 - OASIS Open
  7. SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System Reference - World Wide Web Consortium
  8. General Data Protection Regulation - European Union
  9. Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps - Internet Engineering Task Force

Open questions

  • Develop domain profiles for voluntary, statutory, professional, corporate, cooperative, community, family, standards, political and machine-agent memberships.
  • Approve model identifiers and relation cardinalities for agents, organizations, roles, posts, activities, policies, payments, subscriptions, credentials, access grants, decisions and evidence.
  • Create deterministic fixtures for duplicate memberships, multiple schemes, concurrent roles, non-contiguous validity, suspension, reinstatement, appeal, private existence and stale credential status.
  • Validate certified organization, policy, credential, legal-rule, directory and domain projections with explicit loss, correlation-risk and round-trip tests.
  • Domain profiles for companies, cooperatives, associations, unions, professional bodies, standards organizations, clubs, communities, families, religious bodies, political parties and machine-agent groups require specialist review.
  • Applications, nominations, decisions, roles, posts, activities, payments, subscriptions, credentials, access grants and policy evaluation remain in neighboring models.
  • Certified W3C ORG, OWL-Time, ODRL, VC, LegalRuleML, directory and domain-schema crosswalks, conformance suites and privacy fixtures remain future work.

Machine files

Card as JSON Specification AGENTS.md Source Card backlog vercy.card/1

Provenance

world-models research · reviewable-draft

Built from: models/wm-org-006-membership/spec.yaml, ver-cy/world-models/card-supplements/wm-org-006-membership.json