01 · MEMBERSHIP
One identity, one accepted version
The Chamber issues each member its identity, wallet and passport. The member accepts a version of these rules, and the Chamber records which version, before the member can be party to a case.
Rules of business · version 0.1 · 16 October 2026
Disputes settled by records.
The Chamber holds the rules its members accept and resolves disputes between them. It works from each party's own book, the rail's proofs and the originals each party holds, checked against the hashes they recorded. Automatic where the rule and the evidence allow, a human where they do not.
Version 0.1: the first, simplified version.
It will be amended. Each amendment is a new version and never rewrites a past decision: every decision states the version it was made under, and a member is bound by the version it accepted. Test phase: a person confirms every decision before the Chamber's key signs it.
The rules
02 · EVIDENCE
Five proofs in every case file
- The rule version each party accepted.
- The summons, booked in the recipient's own book.
- The deadline and its expiry.
- The answer with its evidence, or its absence.
- The reasoned decision, signed.
03 · DEADLINE
One month from a booked summons
The deadline runs only from a summons booked in the recipient's own book. If the recipient's edge cannot be reached, it does not run: the Chamber records the summons as undeliverable and tries again. An objection backed by evidence of an outage is heard after expiry.
04 · THE DISPUTE RULE
No receipt, no evidence or silence loses
- A party that claims it delivered but holds no receipt from the other side loses.
- A party that refuses to deliver the evidence the Chamber requests loses.
- A party that stays silent after a duly booked summons loses by rule, in a reasoned decision.
A timeout is not a refusal, and a failed delivery is not silence.
05 · FEES
Both pay, the loser pays all
When two members dispute, each pays the Chamber. The loser pays for the whole dispute and the winner's payment is returned, as in a court. The amounts are set in a later version.
06 · TIERS PROVISIONAL
Who decides, by value
| Disputed value | Decision |
|---|---|
| Below €1,000 | By rule, with the AI triage's written reason |
| €1,000 to €10,000 | The AI triage advises; a human adjudicator decides |
| €10,000 and above | A panel of three members |
A safety signal sends a dispute of any value to the panel.
07 · ORIGINALS
What you claim, you keep
Originals stay with their owner, under the hash recorded with the claim. They are delivered only for a dispute, at the Chamber's request, by hash. A missing original, or one that does not match its hash, is recorded as missing evidence, and the case proceeds by rule.
08 · CONSEQUENCES
Through the passport
A decision can narrow or suspend a member's rights; the right to judge others is the first to go. Rights come back through clean work, never by waiting. An error is not dishonesty; concealing it is.
09 · APPEAL PROVISIONAL
A panel drawn by lot
An appeal goes to a panel drawn by lot from active members with no tie to either party, and it costs, so not every loser appeals. Beyond the Chamber, an ordinary court receives the case with its five proofs.
The process, from claim to decision
- 0The Chamber · once per member
Membership and rules
Identity, wallet and passport; the accepted rule version recorded.
- 1Party A · automatic AUTO
The claim
A books the claim in its own book: the hash of the subject (the order, the contract, the concrete obligation), the measurement, the time and the hashes of its attachments. A's edge commits the period to the rail; nothing of the content leaves A.
- 2Party B
The counter-record
B books its acceptance or its dispute of the same subject in its own book, tied by the same subject hash.
- 3The Chamber · automatic AUTO
Pairing
Each party sends the Chamber, signed with its own key, the reference of its record: edge, sequence, subject hash and role. The Chamber pairs them.
Accepted → closedDisputed → a caseNo answer → summons and deadline - 4The Chamber · automatic AUTO
The case
The Chamber verifies both parties' confirmations against its own seal chain, requests the originals it names by hash within the deadline, and builds the case file: the five proofs, the timeline in the rail's order, and what is missing. Nothing is invented.
- 5The Chamber · by tier BY RULEHUMAN
The decision
By rule wherever silence, a missing receipt, missing evidence or a checkable condition decides it. Otherwise the AI triage proposes a reasoned decision and a human adjudicator or a panel decides. The decision is a signed record of the Chamber, booked at its own edge and delivered to both parties with its proofs.
- 6Separately, as new records
Enforcement
A fee is a new claim and acceptance; a re-delivery is a new order; a change of rights is a passport action under the accepted version. A decision never executes itself, and anyone with the pinned keys can verify it offline.
Checkable conditions
Whose measurement counts
A condition is decided by rule only if the contract names in advance whose measurement counts and how it is verified: the provider's meter signed with its key, the customer's counter-measurement within a tolerance, or an independent meter with a mandate to measure.
The Chamber checks that the original matches its recorded hash and that the condition is met by that measurement. It does not certify the physics, and the decision says so.
Principles
How the Chamber stands
- The ledger core attests; the Chamber decides above it.
- Every decision is a new record, never an edit.
- Pairing comes from the parties' references, not from the rail.
- Content stays with its owner until a dispute asks for it.
- AI-triaged is not finally adjudicated.
- Anchored is not settled; a decision is not its payment.
Versions
Version history
| Version | Date | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 0.1 | 16 October 2026 | First, simplified version: evidence, deadline, dispute rule, fees, tiers, originals, consequences, appeal and the process. |