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Specification
Maintain a clear path to the governing corpus, its definitions, and the constraints on canonical claims.
04 / The foundation
Standards for change.
Agency for people.
Time Foundation is the specification and research-facing home of CTP/IP. Its work is to make the protocol legible, its boundaries explicit, and its claims open to scrutiny.
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The mandate
Steward the specification.
Invite the challenge.
Canonical reference, research replication, falsifiability submissions, and standards engagement belong here. A commercial runtime is a distinct layer, and not the purpose of this website.
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Research
Make the replication surface, open commitments, and evidence categories visible to independent readers.
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Human agency
Keep non-delegable intention and human signing authority at the root of the measurement cycle.
Autonomous bodies
Who grants. Who operates.
Who signs.
Time Foundation and Design Ledger are autonomous bodies, built, set and deployed by the Architect, Érico Lisbôa, as a contribution to the field. Each holds one role, and no role is blurred into its neighbour.
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Time Foundation
The standards body: corpus releases, the Open Validation Program, custody of the intellectual property and oversight of the reference implementation. It grants the licences.
Design Ledger
The operator through which the machine is licensed. It measures nothing of its own.
Sealed Energy
The machine: the operating deployment of the LUX Runtime under licence.
SealedLabs
The research arm.
Human Agency
One human, one wallet, one key. The only signer of intention; AI holds zero signing authority.
The non-negotiable boundary
Validate outcomes.
Never human worth.
The protocol does not measure a person’s moral standing, social value, or fitness for consequences affecting their life or livelihood. Coerced intention is not sovereign agency.
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01Payroll docking02Citizen scoring03Mandatory surveillance04Predictive policing05Coercive optimisation06ctu transfer07AI origination
A clear separation
Research. Architecture.
Runtime operation.
The corpus distinguishes three licensing tiers. This is a source summary, not an offer or a contract.
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Challenge.
Research and replication are open under CC BY-NC 4.0. No licence is required.
Enter the corpusCommercial
deployment.
Commercial use of the architecture requires licensing under Time Foundation governance, executed through Design Ledger.
Architecture licensing at Design LedgerOperate a
CTP/IP runtime.
Runtime operation additionally requires the LUX Runtime Licence. An architecture licence alone does not authorise runtime operation.
Runtime licensing at Design Ledger