DIMENSIONS SURFACED

what each dimension-prompt revealed when run against all six project documents · click a row to expand

modern substrate ancient structure
The SSL framing is the newest skin on a pre-industrial shape. Structural ancestors: guild charters (an authority licenses who may practice), heraldry (branded hashtags are coats-of-arms on speech), and letters of introduction (vouching). The era-substitution test also points forward: the 22nd-century instantiation is portable cryptographic credentials — W3C verifiable credentials and DIDs — which already exist and would decouple a certification from any one platform.

Inherited failure mode: guilds ossified into gatekeeping monopolies that protected incumbents rather than quality. Any accumulate-only credential system re-runs that experiment.

direction ★ pivot collapse ▴
accumulating decaying
Every trust mechanism in the spec only accumulates: reputation points, vouches, certifications, endorsement reach. Nothing expires, decays, or requires renewal. Real PKI — the spec's own stated model — spends most of its operational budget on the decay side: certificate expiry, revocation lists, live status checks, and root-distrust events.

★ Accumulate-only trust is the spec's blind spot. It produces the two uncovered lifecycle steps in the procedure below.

stated-positive dark twin
Each headline feature has a nameable dark version, and each dark version doubles as an entry on the attack-surface list. Click a feature to flip it to its twin:
expertise gating vouching self-declared ad personas time-shifted feeds reputation-gated replies

◆ ABSTRACTION-LIFT ◆

NFL certifies teams certify players → a delegation tree rationing credibility, coupled to a cost-allocation marketplace

CONCRETE — the idea as written
"NFL verifies Cowboys verify Dak; hashtags carry the shield; commenting requires standing; pay by cash, node, or ads."
│ strip the proper nouns ▼
STRIPPED — domain vocabulary removed
"A root authority delegates to organizations that delegate to individuals; symbols are namespaced by authority; participation is threshold-gated; costs allocate across three currencies."
│ strip the domain verbs ▼
⟦ LIFTED SHAPE ⟧
Two interlocked shapes: a provenance tree distributing a scarce good (voice), and a multi-currency allocation of operating cost.

◆ DIMENSION-IDENTIFICATION ◆

one platform design → seven axes on which variants live · click any cell

● MaxOro today ○ occupied by an existing platform ◇ empty cell — coinage opportunity
▸ select a cell above to read its analysis

◆ PROCEDURE ◆ — credential lifecycle

goal-state: every unit of credibility on the platform is traceable, contestable, and mortal · coverage bars show how much of each step the six project docs specify · click a step

coverage: ████ specified   ▒▒▒▒ partial   ░░░░ absent

IDEONOMY TRAIL

[ideonomy · 5 moves · 3 dims · 1 organon · "MaxOro deep expansion"]
  dim · pivot:       direction — accumulate-only trust; decay side absent
  dim:               age — guild/heraldry structure under an SSL skin
  dim:               polarity — dark twins double as the attack-surface list
  ◆ abstraction-lift: "NFL→team→player certs" → provenance tree + cost
                     marketplace; 5 comparator domains with paid tuition
  ◆ dimension-id:    7 axes; ◇ cells at hybrid topology, expiring or
                     decaying trust, brand-pays lane, revocation propagation
  organon:           procedure — 7-step credential lifecycle; steps 6–7
                     uncovered by any project doc; step 6 framed as pivot
  not surfaced:      "kill the central-root model entirely" (pure web-of-
                     trust MaxOro) · "credential portability across rival
                     platforms" (verifiable credentials / DIDs) · the
                     economics of step 6 — who PAYS for revocation in the
                     three-currency cost model. each worth its own tuple.