Open Conduct
PROPOSAL v0.5Browse the public recordConduct overview

WHERE THE PROJECT STANDS

The proposal is ready to examine. The system does not exist yet.

No one can receive a Conduct Quotient, present one to a business, issue an official Net Conduct Score, join an operating alliance, buy a network report, or claim certification today.

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TODAY

The proposal is specific enough to challenge and too early to operate.

What exists

  • A version 0.5 working specification
  • A decision and open-question record
  • An adversarial audit and repair history
  • Twelve suites of synthetic structural testing
  • Public protections and prohibited uses
  • A distributed-integrity direction that does not require blockchain
  • Consumer and standards site prototypes

What does not

  • Consumer scores, profiles, credentials, wallets, or accounts
  • Live worker responses or customer records
  • Partners, members, pilots, benefits, or certified implementations
  • An operating Open Conduct Alliance
  • Production formulas, thresholds, or context maps
  • An appeals office, audit program, certification program, or report product
  • Endorsement by any named company or institution

THREE HORIZONS

Each stage has to earn the next one.

NOW

Publish and challenge

Explain the proposal, publish its protections and decisions, and learn where people understand or reject it.

NEXT

Test the unknowns

Run comprehension and measurement research, legal and cultural review, accessible prototypes, and implementation discovery for one bounded context.

LATER

Operate only what survives

A pilot would require a real context, independent evaluation, funded rights and remedies, worker protection, security, privacy, legal review, and a responsible stop path.

STEWARDSHIP TODAY

Brent stewards the proposal today. A live system would require independent governance.

Conduct and Open Conduct are currently stewarded by Brent Turner from Massachusetts. He writes and maintains the proposal, publishes the record, runs synthetic analysis, receives feedback, and explores nonexclusive research or implementation interest.

He does not operate customer scores, collect identity-linked conduct histories, decide individual appeals, certify businesses, audit implementations, administer benefits, or speak for a global multi-stakeholder institution.

THE FUTURE ALLIANCE

The Open Conduct Alliance is a proposed institution, not an organization operating today.

A future alliance would need meaningful power for consumers, workers, businesses, researchers, technical experts, and public-interest participants. It would need a legal form, charter, funding, staff, contracts, independence, and operating capacity for every role it accepts.

No founder, sponsor, platform, vendor, or early supporter should be able to convert money or implementation resources into permanent control, weaker protections, favorable findings, certification, or access to personal histories.

BEFORE A LIVE PILOT

The minimum gate is larger than a working calculation.

  • A specific partner context and a genuinely additional benefit
  • Validated NCS, VCI, and CQ comprehension for that context
  • Consumer and worker rights, correction, appeal, and remedy operations
  • Independent evaluation with authority to publish unfavorable findings
  • Privacy, security, accessibility, legal, and cultural review
  • Clear separation of governance, operation, evaluation, and business use
  • A funded pause, correction, notification, and stop mechanism

PUBLIC ENOUGH TO CHALLENGE

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