{
  "schema": "chamber-rules-summary/v1",
  "version": "0.1",
  "dated": "2026-10-16",
  "text": "https://cotrugli.tech/demo/chamber-rules/",
  "note": "First, simplified version; it will be amended. Each amendment is a new version and never rewrites a past decision. The text on the page is the version members accept; this file summarises it.",
  "test_phase": "A person confirms every decision before the Chamber's key signs it.",
  "membership": "The Chamber issues identity, wallet and passport; the member accepts a rule version and the Chamber records which.",
  "case_file_proofs": [
    "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"
  ],
  "deadline": {
    "duration": "P1M",
    "runs_from": "a summons booked in the recipient's own book",
    "undeliverable": "the deadline does not run; the Chamber records the summons as undeliverable and retries",
    "outage_objection": "heard after expiry when backed by evidence of an outage"
  },
  "dispute_rule": [
    "a party that claims delivery but holds no receipt from the other side loses",
    "a party that refuses to deliver requested evidence loses",
    "a party silent after a duly booked summons loses by rule, in a reasoned decision"
  ],
  "dispute_rule_limits": [
    "a timeout is not a refusal",
    "a failed delivery is not silence"
  ],
  "fees": {
    "rule": "both parties pay the Chamber; the loser pays the whole dispute; the winner's payment is returned",
    "amounts": null,
    "amounts_note": "set in a later version"
  },
  "tiers": {
    "status": "PROVISIONAL",
    "currency": "EUR",
    "bands": [
      {"below_cents": 100000, "decision": "by rule, with the AI triage's written reason"},
      {"from_cents": 100000, "below_cents": 1000000, "decision": "the AI triage advises; a human adjudicator decides"},
      {"from_cents": 1000000, "decision": "a panel of three members"}
    ],
    "safety_signal": "sends a dispute of any value to the panel"
  },
  "originals": "kept by their owner under the hash recorded with the claim; delivered only for a dispute, on request, by hash; missing or mismatched originals are recorded as missing evidence",
  "consequences": "through the passport: rights narrowed or suspended, the right to judge others first; recovery by clean work, never by time",
  "appeal": {
    "status": "PROVISIONAL",
    "rule": "a panel drawn by lot from active members with no tie to either party; an appeal costs",
    "beyond": "an ordinary court receives the case with its five proofs"
  },
  "process": [
    {"step": 0, "name": "membership and rules", "by": "the Chamber"},
    {"step": 1, "name": "claim", "by": "party A", "mode": "automatic"},
    {"step": 2, "name": "counter-record", "by": "party B"},
    {"step": 3, "name": "pairing from signed references", "by": "the Chamber", "mode": "automatic"},
    {"step": 4, "name": "case file", "by": "the Chamber", "mode": "automatic"},
    {"step": 5, "name": "decision", "by": "the Chamber", "mode": "by rule, or AI triage with a human adjudicator, or a panel"},
    {"step": 6, "name": "enforcement", "by": "separate new records"}
  ]
}