About the Open Trust Commons

The Open Trust Commons — formally OTCS, the Open Trust Coordination System — is an open protocol and public registry for locating trust-related projects within a shared action-governance coordinate system; preserving their provenance, maturity, evidence and relationships; and enabling voluntary composition, testing and collaboration without requiring centralized ownership or manufactured consensus.

Conflicts of interest — declared

This system is founder-led during incubation (Stage 1), and the founder's interests overlap its subject matter. Chris Perkins (nmcitra) is simultaneously the author of KTP (the coordinate system OTCS adopts), the initial maintainer of OTCS, and the maintainer of the registered projects ktp, ktp-demo, and abt. Mitigations, succession stages, and the nomination process are in the charter (§6–§7). The standing rule: the registry does not grade its own homework, and neither does its founder.

OTCS scored on its own scale

By its own maturity model, OTCS is currently:

Specified and running (schemas, validator, ledger, generators, this site) — with no independent evaluation. That zero is displayed on purpose.

Record states

registered project-controlled and maintainer-verified · observed created from public evidence, not project-controlled, never presented as participation · example fictional demonstration. A project may decline to appear here at all (charter §10).