DIA Node Rights and Duties Card

Document Status

Field	Value
policy-id	DIA-NODE-CARD-001
type	Extract from the Constitution - onboarding material
version	0.1.0-draft
source	Art. II, III, XV, XVI of the DIA Constitution

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Your Rights as a Node

Right	What it means	Constitution
Right to exit	You may leave the federation at any time, without coercion, without losing access to your own data, and without hidden penalties. Exit does not erase evidence or terminate a case opened before it took effect.	Art. III.4, X.4
Right to privacy	Telemetry is off by default. Your data is local. Disclosure is selective and as a rule requires your consent, with a procedural exception for ongoing or severe abuse under Art. III.9 and Art. X.	Art. III.7, III.8, III.9, Art. X
Right to inspect	You can audit your agents' interactions, decision traces, action histories, and other causes of state changes attributed to your node or nym.	Art. XV.2, XV.3
Right to settlement basis	You can learn the basis of a material credit, debit, correction, hold, or expiry of funds, credits, recognitions, and similar instruments attributed to your node or nym: the event type, applied rule, outcome status, and appeal path. This right does not automatically disclose another person's identity or sensitive data.	Art. XV.3
Right to appeal	You may challenge any reputation decision or sanction through an appeals procedure.	Art. XV.2, XVI.2
Right to safety	The system protects you against harassment, doxxing, sabotage, and economic coercion.	Art. XV.2
Right to local autonomy	You may run a "quiet" node: privately, locally, without participating in public spaces.	Art. III.6
Right to fork	You may copy specifications, policies, and open components without asking a center for permission.	Art. III.5
Right to a personal sphere of agency	You retain primary control over, and an agentic use-right to, your data, keys, policies, agents, tools, working environments, and local memory. Export in open formats is guaranteed.	Art. III.1, III.3
Right to agentic subsidiarity	A higher layer must act subsidiarily and not replace what you or a small community can safely and responsibly control. Any restriction requires an explicit basis, proportionality, a trace, appeal, and the right to exit.	Art. III.10
Floor of rights against the operator	The operator may shape local node policy but must not go below the constitutional rights of the node's users. You have the right to inspect the effective policy, the source of a restriction, and its appeal path.	Art. III.11, XV.3

If You Start with phone Attestation

Phone-number attestation is allowed as a convenient entry threshold, but it is treated as a weak source rather than full high-stakes anchoring.

Default operational restrictions:

• no access to governance roles,

• no access to panels or sealed chambers,

• no access to high-stakes oracle roles,

• no operations that require the U2 or U3 track,

• possible limits on influence, action rate, or reputation maturation until a strong attestation is added.

The phone -> strong transition should not destroy your anchor or durable nyms, but it may require a waiting period and anomaly checks.

Your Duties as a Node

Duty	What it means	Constitution
Do no harm	Do not take actions intentionally harmful to people, infrastructure, or the integrity of memory and evidence.	Art. XV.5
Be epistemically honest	Mark speculation. Do not falsify evidence. Do not manipulate reputation.	Art. XV.4
Cooperate at the protocol level	Respect contracts, protocol versions, and limits.	Art. XV.4
Maintain operational hygiene	Take care of keys, updates, and basic node security.	Art. XV.4
Be ready to help	Within your means, without an obligation of transactional settlement.	Art. XV.4

The short operational form of these duties for entering shared influence surfaces is the PARTICIPANT-COVENANT.md. The covenant is not an ideological test; it is a compact statement of non-harm, anti-Sybil, anti-spam, anti-fraud, privacy, appeal, and repair duties.

Hierarchy of Values (When Values Conflict)

Human dignity and safety
  > Sovereignty and privacy
    > Verifiability and transparency
      > Agency and autonomy
        > Effectiveness and optimization
          > Convenience and aesthetics

Source: Art. XIV.1. In case of conflict at the same level, the tests of reversibility, proportionality, and publicity apply (Art. XIV.2).

Enforcement Is Graduated

Notice -> Restriction -> Quarantine -> Role suspension
  -> Routing isolation -> Federation block

Every sanction has a surface scope, evidentiary basis, author, review or expiry deadline, appeal path, and route back after repair. A sanction does not remove the UBC minimum; an isolated protective corridor remains available when the ordinary route creates risk (Art. X.10, XII.12, XVI.1-2).

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Full Constitution: doc/normative/40-constitution/CONSTITUTION.md
Values and interpretation: doc/normative/30-core-values/CORE-VALUES.md
Project vision: doc/normative/20-vision/VISION.md
Agent autonomy gradient: AUTONOMY-LEVELS.md

Participant covenant: PARTICIPANT-COVENANT.md

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Decision Index - From Situation to Article

The table below maps the most common operational situations to the relevant articles of the Constitution and key principles. It serves as a "router" - it does not replace reading the Constitution, but it helps locate the right norm quickly.

User Rights and Sovereignty

#	Situation	Articles	Principle / Action
1	The user wants to take their data and leave	III.3, III.4	Export in open formats, without coercion or hidden penalties
2	The user wants to run a node offline	III.2, III.6	The system MUST work meaningfully local-first and self-hosted
3	The user wants to fork the project	III.5	Right to fork: specifications, policies, open components
4	Someone enabled telemetry without the user's consent	III.7	Telemetry is off by default; it requires clear, revocable consent

Agents and Autonomy

#	Situation	Articles	Principle / Action
5	An agent made a decision without the user's knowledge	II.3, II.4, V.10	Power passes through the human; proposals and options are the default
6	An agent exceeded budget / time / scope	V.10, AUTONOMY-LEVELS.md	An agent MUST have a kill switch and limits on permissions, time, and cost
7	An agent escalated its own permissions	V.13, AUTONOMY-LEVELS.md	Zero self-authorize; an agent error may not automatically escalate privileges
8	An agent acts in a life-threatening situation	II.8, IX.3, AUTONOMY-LEVELS.md	It MAY act faster, but it leaves a trace and is subject to review

Funding and Capture

#	Situation	Articles	Principle / Action
9	A sponsor demands privileged access to data	VIII.2	Prohibited - funding does not buy access to data, routing, or governance
10	One dependency became critical (model, infra, funding)	VIII.5	Mandatory diversification plan
11	Tension between funding and constitutional integrity	VIII.7	Constitutional integrity takes precedence
12	Revenue model based on addicting the user	VIII.3, II.7	Dopamine-driven UX and retention-based economics are prohibited

Reputation and Governance

#	Situation	Articles	Principle / Action
13	A node challenges a reputation decision	XV.6, XVI.2	Counter-evidence or demonstration of procedural error; decay, repair, and reintegration operate independently
14	Failure to disclose a conflict of interest	VII.6	COI-by-default: no declaration = no data, not no conflict
15	A person simultaneously acts as party and arbiter	VII.3	Critical powers MUST be separated across roles
16	A high-stakes decision	VII.9	Multisig + independent red team

Safety and Crisis

#	Situation	Articles	Principle / Action
17	Suspected Sybil / DoS / prompt injection	IX.1, IX.2	Threat modeling is part of the architecture, not decoration
18	Crisis situation (blackout, conflict)	IX.3, IX.4	Crisis mode: higher rigor, redundancy, locality, trace quality
19	Node partially cut off from the network	IX.5	A node SHOULD preserve the ability to operate in partial isolation
20	Need for emergency cache (shelter, food, triage)	IX.6, IX.7	Memarium may maintain crisis spaces

Whistleblowers and Publication

#	Situation	Articles	Principle / Action
21	Someone wants to report abuse anonymously	X.1, X.2	Default anonymity, metadata minimization, signal triage
22	A whistleblower is exposed to retaliation	X.3	Swarm care is part of the infrastructure, not a moral gesture
23	A credible signal of ongoing or concealed severe abuse appears	III.9, X.4-X.8	No general investigation without a present-day signal; once the threshold is met, full case history, infrastructure sanctions, and appeal procedure become possible
24	Publication of high-stakes material is under consideration	X.12	Adversarial review, evidence thresholds, redaction of sensitive data
25	Escalation of case examination	X.11	A separate axis: verification -> procedural correction -> formal notice -> audit -> publication; it is not a sanction ladder

Changes and Exceptions

#	Situation	Articles	Principle / Action
26	Someone proposes an exception to a rule	XIV.3, XIV.4	An exception requires: policy-id, reason, risk-level, expiry, owner, fail-closed
27	An exception generates signals of harm or abuse	XIV.5	Automatic suspension of the exception until clarification
28	A proposal to amend the Constitution	XIII.7-XIII.12, XVI.8, XVI.9, XVI.13	Explicit rationale, impact analysis, and reversibility; founder influence expires automatically and does not bypass the core
29	A local policy tries to bypass the Constitution	XVI.10	Impermissible without a formal constitutional amendment