How the Meta-Universe specification is stewarded. This is the operational companion to the normative Governance document: that one defines governance as a constitutional principle; this one says how the project is actually run today.
Meta-Universe aims to be an organization-independent open standard, like the work of W3C/IETF/ISO. It is currently steward-led by Orkestron.AI during the Working Draft phase, with the explicit intent to migrate to neutral, multi-party governance as adoption grows. Steward-led today; community-governed by design.
These are roles in the governance architecture; they may be filled by one or many parties:
| Body | Owns | Mandate |
|---|---|---|
| Constitution Council | MUC | Changes to the Constitution only |
| Architecture Board | MMAS (incl. MUIF, Validation) | Meta-model architecture |
| Federation Working Group | MUFP (incl. Messages, Security) | Federation protocol |
| Domain Registry Authority | Registries | Compatible-model registry stewardship |
| Certification Authority | Conformance levels | Certification criteria |
- Changes follow the Change Process and are proposed as Change Requests (CRs) via pull request.
- A CR to a Normative document requires review by the owning body (Section 2) and a public review period. Editorial CRs may be merged by maintainers.
- Decisions are made by rough consensus; where consensus fails, the owning body decides, records the rationale, and the decision is auditable.
- All decisions are public and traceable. Nothing is decided in private.
Maintainers triage issues, review CRs, and steward releases. During the Working Draft phase, maintainers are appointed by the steward; the path to community maintainership will be published before the first stable release.
- The specification text and all code/schemas are licensed under Apache License 2.0, which includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
- By contributing, you agree your contribution is licensed under Apache-2.0 and that you have the right to license it (a Developer Certificate of Origin–style affirmation; see CONTRIBUTING.md).
- Implementations are free, including commercial implementations. There are no royalty or membership requirements to implement Meta-Universe.
- If a future neutral body is formed, an explicit IPR policy (covering essential claims and a non-assertion covenant) will be adopted at that time.
Releases follow Versioning and the Freeze Rule. A document becomes Frozen only after its owning body approves it; Stable releases bundle frozen documents.
The name "Meta-Universe" and the Universe / Dimension / Namespace vocabulary are a deliberate, retained choice: they convey sovereignty and bounded semantic worlds. The project explicitly distinguishes itself from consumer "metaverse" (VR/AR) products; positioning materials state this up front. This decision is recorded here so it is not silently revisited.
This governance model will itself evolve toward neutrality. Changes to it are made transparently and announced through the normal Change Process.