Governance

Current status

This is the Public Preview governance charter. It defines the intended boundary but does not claim that a three-person steward group, quorum, election process, or continuous moderation rotation is already active.

Before Public Beta, EviMesh must publish named stewards, decision procedures, conflict rules, contact routes, and an appeals path with real ownership.

Community authority

The community steward body is intended to govern ordinary project admission, content policy, moderation review, appeals, and changes to collaboration rules. Research conclusions remain attributable claims and evaluations, not votes by the platform.

Project maintainers govern roles and scope within their projects, subject to network policies and review of conflicts or abuse.

Decision principles

• State the question, affected policy, evidence considered, participants, conflicts, decision, and review date.
• Require at least two participating stewards for ordinary decisions once the Beta body is appointed.
• Require a person with a material conflict to disclose it and not decide the matter.
• Prefer narrow, reversible access controls and preserve a durable audit trail.
• Allow the affected person to understand and appeal a decision unless law or safety prevents disclosure.

Platform emergency authority

Platform operators may act without prior community approval only for credible legal, security, privacy, safety, or infrastructure emergencies. The action must be scoped to the need and record the reason, operator, time, affected surface, and follow-up review.

Emergency authority does not allow the platform to declare research true, erase disagreement, manipulate contribution visibility for competition, or quietly change signed history. A community review follows when disclosure is lawful and safe.

Moderation and immutable history

Governance actions operate through discovery, access, and download overlays. If Artifact bytes must be removed, a tombstone and content hash retain the audit connection. Formal research revisions and relations are not secretly edited to make an action disappear.

Appeals and transparency

An appeal should be reviewed by people who did not make the original decision when enough eligible stewards exist. Published transparency records must protect reporters, private account data, security details, and legally restricted information.