P1-001 · Version 1.0 · 2026-08-31 — P1-001_Bylaws_v1.0.md
Prepared and adopted by the founder board as a bootstrap act under §16.1 and recorded in the governance registry under §9.5. Like every bootstrap act, it stands open to the membership under §2.3.
Version numbering restarts at 1.0: this is the first instrument written to the Janus Facing Architecture, and it supersedes the P1-001 v6.0 through v8.0 line, which is archived rather than amended.
JFA assigns NTARI a precise seat — the protocol tier of the Governance layer: a nonprofit, 501(c)(3), copyleft software stewardship organization. These bylaws govern it. Under §1.4 the Institute exists to hold, maintain, and amend the official JFA document and its executable conformance suite; to steward JFA software as a free software commons under copyleft terms; to research network systems, deliberative infrastructure, and endogenous economics; and to educate the public in the same.
| Preamble · Article I | The Corporation |
| Article II | Principles |
| Article III · IV | Membership · Prosumer Standing |
| Article V | Federation Channels |
| Article VI | Assemblies and Decisions |
| Article VII · VIII | Board Governance · Directors |
| Article IX | Stewardship of the Architecture |
| Article X | Member Duties |
| Article XI | Mutual Credit Markets |
| Article XII | Discipline, Expulsion, Readmission, and Appeals |
| Article XIII | Self-Binding of the Institute |
| Article XIV | Corporate Administration |
| Article XV · XVI | Amendment · Transition |
| Appendix | Provenance of Demands |
§1.5 defines three instruments outside this repository:
| Term in the bylaws | Where it lives |
|---|---|
| "the official document" | janus-facing-architecture.md in NTARI-RAND/Janus |
| "the twelve lines" | the section of the official document titled The Lines That Cannot Be Crossed |
| "the dispute-mechanics design" | jfa-dispute-mechanics.md, held in NTARI's document store; not yet published |
The adopted text is committed here byte-for-byte as adopted. Two of its links
(../JFA/janus-facing-architecture.md and ../JFA/jfa-dispute-mechanics.md)
resolve only inside NTARI's document store, not in this repository — the table
above is the standing redirection for readers here. The text is not edited to
repair them, because an adopted instrument is amended under Article XV, never
patched.
English is authoritative. Translations are provided for reach, not for interpretation, per NTARI Policy P2-002 §2.2.
| Language | File |
|---|---|
| العربية (Arabic) | P1-001_Bylaws_v1.0.ar.md |
| Español (Spanish) | P1-001_Bylaws_v1.0.es.md |
| Français (French) | P1-001_Bylaws_v1.0.fr.md |
| हिन्दी (Hindi) | P1-001_Bylaws_v1.0.hi.md |
| Português (Portuguese) | P1-001_Bylaws_v1.0.pt.md |
| toki pona | P1-001_Bylaws_v1.0.tok.md |
| 中文 (Chinese) | P1-001_Bylaws_v1.0.zh.md |
Historical Docs/ carries the superseded line in the order
it was written. None of it is in force; it is kept so the drafting record is
legible. Provenance for files brought in from outside the document store is
recorded in SOURCES.md.
| Date | File | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-24 | v3.0 tracked changes | earliest copy retained |
| 2026-06-05 | v5.0 final | |
| 2026-06-06 | v6.0 final | |
| 2026-07-01 | v6.0 final | second v6.0 final |
| 2026-07-03 | v6.0 | |
| 2026-07-21 | v7.0 draft | |
| 2026-08-27 | v7.1 amendment draft | |
| 2026-08-27 | v7.1 draft — md · pdf | |
| 2026-08-27 | v8.0 draft — md · pdf | last of the superseded line |
| 2026-08-28 | bylaws + JFA draft | first draft written to JFA |
| 2026-08-31 | JFA and bylaws v1.0 | working copy behind the adopted text |
Amendments to the instrument in force proceed under Article XV and are recorded in the governance registry under §9.5.
AGPL-3.0, matching NTARI's stewardship terms for the official document.