Reference architecture

Reparation Bond system specification

This page records the architecture being developed through the website. It is intended to preserve the distinctions that will later underpin the book Reparation Bonds, written solely by John Canoe – Derrick Lynch.

1

Public education

Explain reparations financing, the Black Pledge relationship, bond ownership and reparations entitlement.

2

Latent registration

Eligible prospective participant selects a face value; £0 is paid; coded identifiers are generated.

3

Register

Server stores the coded record, preserves status and records auditable events.

4

Certificate

A printable latent certificate evidences the coded record without representing that money was invested.

5

Activation gate

No funding stage opens until legal, contractual, compliance, payment and register conditions are satisfied.

6

Identity transition

Where required, coded latent participation transitions into a controlled identity/compliance process separate from public verification.

7

Funding

Money is received only under the eventual live structure. The funded obligation is then recorded as such.

8

Servicing / redemption

Principal and any agreed return are administered under final contractual terms and accounting controls.

Non-negotiable data distinctions

Person ≠ Bond

Bondholder ID identifies a coded participant; Bond ID identifies an individual bond record.

Face value ≠ cash

Latent nominal value cannot be displayed or accounted for as money already received.

Bond ≠ reparations entitlement

The financial claim of a funded bondholder is distinct from the underlying class of persons entitled to reparations.

Public verification ≠ identity disclosure

Public verification confirms coded record facts without publishing private holder identity information.

Certificate ≠ separate asset

Printing or reprinting a certificate does not multiply the registered bond record.

Latent ≠ active

A status change requires a defined activation process; it must never occur merely because a certificate exists.

System doctrine: finance reparations and preserve the accounting, legal and conceptual boundary between a future commitment, a funded debt obligation, and reparations entitlement.