Companion document to General Terms and Conditions GT-3A. It describes the Network Passport and the single access rule. It is not a legal agreement.
What the Network Passport is
Every person who contributes to this network accumulates a single, portable record of their contributions. It travels with them across roles, across hubs, across time. It does not reset. It does not expire. It grows.
The Network Passport is that record. It lives in the Contribution Ledger (a plain, shared, visible log — not a blockchain) and belongs entirely to the person who holds it. It is theirs to carry into new roles and present as evidence of who they have shown themselves to be in this network.
It answers the question relational economies have always struggled with at scale: how do you carry trust with you when you move? In a village, reputation travels by word of mouth. In a network of villages it needs a container. The Passport is that container — and nothing more. There are no tiers, no levels, no ranks among people: no one belongs more than anyone else, and no record buys a vote (see One ledger, three readings below).
The Access Rule (the whole participant-facing system)
Access to the network’s shared resources — programmes, hub stays, priority booking — is offered on a sliding scale from full price to free. Standing contribution is one signal among several — alongside need, mission fit, and rotation. The more you have contributed, the stronger that signal — but no recorded measure of itself entitles anyone to a price or a place.
That is the entire mechanism. There is no perk table and no conversion rate between contribution and price. Each steward, mentor, or hub sets, for the resource they hold, how many places are free and how price slides — applying the rule in good faith, and recording a free or below-cost place as a discretionary decision with its reason (GT-3A.3). The purpose is abundance and circulation, not gatekeeping. Someone who has given a great deal to the network tends to move toward the front and toward free; someone new pays nearer full price and builds their record from there.
How contribution is measured (kept deliberately cheap)
One cumulative standing — not reduced to hours alone; quality, diversity, and the judgement of those close to the work all count (GT-3A.4). A steward or a peer confirms a logged contribution in good faith (GT-1.8): a plain visible log, no validator roles, no blockchain — honest fuzziness is cheaper and truer than the apparatus built to deny it. If you feel the rule was applied to you unfairly, review lies under GT-7.2.
One ledger, three readings
The Contribution Ledger is one record, partitioned by holon — each hub, project, venture, and the Association holds its own partition. Visibility is a tunable network setting (GT-3.4A; LGR-8), currently: every partition visible to all — and never less than your own entries, your holons’ partitions, and the Association’s full view. The same record is read three ways, and keeping the readings apart is what lets contribution matter without ever becoming a rank over people.
- For access — lifetime, portable, rankless. Your whole cumulative record informs your place on the sliding scale (GT-3A.3) as one signal among several: a stronger signal, weighed in the steward’s recorded discretion — never an automatic entitlement. It never resets, follows you across every hub, and ranks no one above anyone.
- For allocation say — active, local, delegated. Where you actively tend a holon, your recent contribution there sets your share of that holon’s delegated spending envelope (GT-4.3; Agreement 2 §2.7) — administration of delegated resources, never a governance vote; in the Assembly it remains one member, one vote (Agreement 2 §2.1).
- For distribution — commercial, per project. In a Project or Venture partition (A6-4; A7 §7), entries carry € valuations that compute revenue shares among Partners or Venture Members. The euro values never feed the access reading (GT-3A.4): the same entries count toward access as contributions of their kind, never at their monetary value.
So contribution lowers your price everywhere and, where you tend, raises your say over that holon’s discretionary spend — but it never ranks you as a person, never weights your vote, and is never worth more because it was worth more money.
Your rights (transitions and data)
- At role exit, the Association provides a written summary of your contribution record for that role within 30 days (GT-3A.6). It is yours to share — a record, not a reference letter; it speaks for itself.
- At a new hub or role, you may present your Passport. The receiving community is not obliged to extend access on a past record alone — each community is its own whole — but is strongly encouraged to extend welcome proportionate to its depth (GT-3A.5).
- Your data. Export, correction, and deletion at any time, per GT-3A.7, GT-3.4, and GT-5 (deletion renders historical entries unattributable without destroying the underlying record of network activity). Personal data is held separately and minimally by the Association as data controller.
Reviewed seasonally by the Association’s governance body. Changes are logged in the Association’s internal Decision Log and communicated to active participants. Governed by General Terms and Conditions GT-3A.