target-revenue/SCOPE.md
tegwick 7b244df858 Draft Commercial Use Agreement V1C1 template
Adds specs/TargetRevenueCommercialUseAgreement-V1C1.md, the companion
agreement the License repeatedly refers to but never itself set terms
for: commercial entitlement grant, fees and explicit Development Credit
allocation, applicable monetization extensions, metering, audit rights,
term/termination (cross-referenced to License §7.2/§5.2 so a Commercial
Use Agreement termination can never revoke an already-converted Milestone
Release), and a real Section 9 implementing the informed-consent breach-
disclosure election that License §7.4 deferred here: opt-in named
disclosure vs. an anonymized default, a 10-business-day pre-publication
notice with a dispute window, and a data-protection carve-out.

Unlike the License, this Agreement had no dedicated prior-art research
pass (WP-0001 T01-T05 covered license models, terminology, patents,
contributor rights, and jurisdiction constraints, not commercial-agreement
drafting norms) — its preliminary notice says so explicitly, and Appendix A
leaves Section 13 (Indemnification) unwritten rather than guess at a
default carrying real financial exposure.

Corrects three prior references from the placeholder filename
"TRSL-CommercialUseAgreement-Draft.md" to the actual deliverable name, and
cross-references it from README, PRD, TSD, and SCOPE.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-29 12:48:23 +02:00

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# Target Revenue Framework — SCOPE
**Status:** Living document for Stage 0
**Authority:** Describes what is actually in design or delivery *now*.
**Counterpart:** [`INTENT.md`](INTENT.md) is stable and aspirational. A gap between INTENT and this file is expected and is a maturity signal, not a defect.
**Last updated:** 2026-07-28
**Basis:** SWOT recommendations in `history/260728-SWOT-Assessment.md`
---
## 1. Current maturity
| Label | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| **Stage 0** | Concept consolidated; product/tech orientation specs exist; no production legal text; no production Trust Service |
| Trust Service federation | Stages 16 from concept §15 are **out of current delivery scope** (design readiness only) |
| Legal TRSL | Research and non-binding draft skeleton only; specialist review required before any real Phase |
---
## 2. In scope now
### Documentation and specification
- Maintain INTENT, this SCOPE, concept, PRD, TSD, and working defaults.
- Extract normative core artifacts (PRD Roadmap Phase 1):
- `specs/TargetRevenueFrameworkCore.md`
- `specs/PhaseManifestSpecification.md`
- `specs/TargetLedgerSpecification.md`
- Prior-art research (archived under `history/260729-TRSL-*.md`) and non-binding `TargetRevenueSourceLicense-V1C1.md` and `TargetRevenueCommercialUseAgreement-V1C1.md` candidates (WP-0001).
- Provisional answers to conversion-critical open questions (`specs/OpenQuestions-WorkingDefaults.md`).
- Degeneration policy research artifact (recommended default for Stage 0 pilots).
- Canonical monetization profiles as documentation (defaults + examples).
- Lightweight contributor policy (`CONTRIBUTING.md`).
### Runnable specification foundation (not a hosted service)
- Machine-readable schemas for Phase Manifest, Ledger Entry, Extension Contract, Conversion Attestation.
- Pure, deterministic Outstanding Target fold and offline conformance validators.
- Golden Phase package under `examples/` (concept §23 numbers).
- Optional thin library/CLI for `validate` / `fold`**no** requirement for multi-tenant hosting, auth productization, or federation protocol.
### Work system
- Hub-linked workplans, progress events, and consistency sync for this repo.
---
## 3. Explicitly out of scope now
| Item | Deferred to |
| --- | --- |
| Production Trust Service (registries, hosted ledger API, metrics product) | After Phase 1 normative docs + schema foundation; dedicated Trust Service PRD |
| Finalized legal license text and commercial agreements | Specialist legal review post draft skeleton |
| Final degeneration formula as irreversible norm | Research + pilot learning |
| Federation Stage 2+ (replication, multi-operator, multi-authority) | PRD Roadmap Phase 6 |
| Multi-stakeholder governance institutions | PRD Roadmap Phase 7 (lightweight draft only if needed) |
| Tax / statutory revenue recognition | Permanently out of framework core (INTENT boundaries) |
| Governing third-party product Phases in production | After legal + Stage 0 package ready |
| Accepting external code into a governed Milestone Release | Until contributor-rights instrument exists |
---
## 4. Sequencing rules (binding for workplans)
These rules implement SWOT I-05 / I-06 and the PRD roadmap order:
1. **Normative extraction (WP-0003) and prior-art research (WP-0001)** proceed in parallel with **schema + pure fold + golden fixture (WP-0002)**.
2. **Full Trust Service implementation** (Phase Registry service, hosted append API, Metrics product, multi-user operation) **must not** start until:
- WP-0003 core extract deliverables exist (or are explicitly waived by human decision), and
- Working defaults for Longstop, currency, recognition, and minimum evidence are published.
3. **Human accept gates** (recorded in the workplan or a decision note) are required before treating as done:
- WP-0001-T06 TRSL draft skeleton (legal-sensitive),
- WP-0002 stack/library ADR (if technology is locked),
- Any promotion of working defaults into normative core language.
4. New monetization ideas land as **profiles/extensions**, not core terms, unless they pass the complexity budget (universal / interoperable / trust-critical).
---
## 5. Stage 0 “done enough” signal
Stage 0 package is acceptable when:
1. A newcomer can explain the five-verb lifecycle from README + core doc alone.
2. Offline tools validate a golden Phase and recompute Outstanding Target to zero with no network service.
3. Open questions have provisional defaults or explicit “blocked on legal/research” labels.
4. WP-0001 research artifact exists; legal draft is marked non-binding and not used in production.
5. This SCOPE honestly states what is not yet claimed.
---
## 6. Change policy
Update this file when Stage 0 boundaries change (e.g. first hosted Trust Service pilot authorized, first legal review complete). Do **not** weaken INTENT to match short-term delivery; expand SCOPE when INTENT milestones become active work.