{
  "id": "sovereignty",
  "title": "Sovereignty",
  "version": 0.1,
  "status": "draft",
  "author": "Pete Dainty",
  "updated": "2026-07-05",
  "summary": "Sovereignty is control of your own origin. You own the source, the canonical address and the right to be the place your identity is read from.\n",
  "definition": "The property of holding your identity, knowledge and capabilities as your own canonical source, on infrastructure and terms you control, so no platform sits between you and the consumers who read you.\n",
  "rationale": [
    "If your identity lives on someone else's platform, they own the terms, the reach and the exit. An origin you control cannot be deplatformed out of existence.",
    "One canonical address, owned by you, is what lets every projection point home. Rent the address and you rent the authority.",
    "Sovereignty is not isolation. You still project everywhere. You just keep the source and the canonical link."
  ],
  "examples": [
    "heliacon.com is the canonical home. A post on another platform is a projection that links back to it.",
    "The origin is a repository you own, built and deployed on infrastructure you control."
  ],
  "antipatterns": [
    "Making a rented profile the canonical version of who you are.",
    "Publishing only where a platform allows, with no source of your own."
  ],
  "related": [
    "origin",
    "privacy",
    "provenance"
  ],
  "projections": [
    "html",
    "markdown",
    "json",
    "jsonld",
    "llms",
    "mcp"
  ]
}