Membership State Registry

Rights and obligations scattered across documents drift apart. Collecting every state, its rights, its obligations, and its transitions into one table makes the membership system auditable at a glance — you can see every door into and out of the community, and what each one grants. If two documents ever disagree, this registry is the tiebreaker.

Define every membership state your community recognizes (e.g. Applicant, Trial Member, Full Member, Exited Member). For each, list rights, obligations, entry condition, and exit condition. Keep states mutually exclusive — no individual may hold two states simultaneously.

The community’s history belongs to the community, not to any individual account. Retaining contribution records after exit protects the integrity of audit trails, governance history, and recognition accounting — while revoking access and removing the person from active listings respects the finality of their departure.

Describe which records persist after exit, where state assignments are tracked operationally, and how access revocation interacts with platform capabilities.

This document defines what the states mean; the live registry tracks who is in which state today. Keeping them separate means the definitions are stable and governable while the assignments stay current — and nobody has to change a ratified artifact every time a member joins or leaves.

Link to the operational system or document where current member-to-state assignments are tracked. This artifact should not need to be changed every time a member joins or leaves.