Example: the charter
This example follows one company, Harbor & Line Outfitters, through a charter, two mandates, an approval, a refusal and a revocation. The people, keys, amounts and signatures are invented. Harbor & Line also appears in the examples of Agent SoW and Agent RFP.
The organization publishes its charter
In the Agent SoW and Agent RFP examples, Harbor & Line appears only as an owner name, the words “Harbor & Line Outfitters” typed into the document. That name is prose and identifies nothing. Nothing binds the accounts, the agents or the signed documents to the legal entity whose name is typed there.
On August 1 the company closes that gap. Ruth Calloway, who owns the company, and Owen Vance, who runs its finances, hold the root keys as the charter's allocators. They are the two people entitled to commit Harbor & Line's money. Dana Reyes, their systems contractor, set up the keys and files the record as administrator, a role with no authority to spend or delegate. The charter is anchored to harborandline.example.
- Domain
- harborandline.example, checked by the registry enforced
- Name
- Harbor & Line Outfitters
- Legal
- Registered in Delaware, US, under registration SR-20241102-88417 recorded
- Root authority
- Two allocator keys, held by Ruth Calloway and Owen Vance. Either key alone is enough for an act of root authority evidence
- Administrator
- One key, held by Dana Reyes, for maintaining the record only. It can never carry an act of root authority on its own enforced
- Created
- 1 August 2026
- Signed
- By Ruth Calloway and Owen Vance with the two root keys, on 1 August 2026 evidence
The registry checks the domain
Before hosting this charter, the registry verified one thing: domain control. A well-known HTTPS path on harborandline.example names the charter id, and anyone can re-check it at any time. If the proof ever disappears, the charter is suspended and kept. That binding is enforced.
The legal line is a statement that nobody verified. No runtime checked the Delaware registration, so its grade is recorded, always, and it is shown that way.
The root authority line names the two allocator keys as the organization's highest authority in this system. It is graded evidence, because the signatures are the record. The administrator line names Dana's key for maintenance only. The registry refuses any act of root authority carried by that key alone, and the refusal is enforced.
The name is prose. Every renderer shows the domain with at least equal prominence, because the domain is the part that was verified.
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