What the platform will be for
Anyone will be able to publicly contest a Profile that appears misleading, dishonest or substantially incomplete. The contestation will be reasoned, dated, attributed — not anonymous. It will not remove the contested Profile: it will be linked to its index entry, readable alongside the declaration. Like a footnote the publisher can address by updating their text, or leave visible if they stand by it.
Why this restraint
A poorly designed reporting mechanism causes more harm than its absence: harassment of honest suppliers, noise that drowns out serious contestations, a race to denounce. The manifesto prefers to take the time to calibrate the grammar of contestations with the first publishers and their critical interlocutors before opening the mechanism at scale.
What you can report now
If you have noticed a gap between a published Profile and observable reality, write to us. Typical examples:
- components declared but not used in production;
- real host concealed behind a European front company;
- claimed equivalence conditions (reversibility, escrow, anti-acquisition by-laws) without a verifiable contractual or statutory clause;
- canonical URL pointing to a file different from the indexed
sovereignty.json; - declaration on behalf of an organisation by a person without authority to do so.
Specify the URL of the Profile concerned, the passage that poses the problem, and the factual element that contradicts it. Serious contestations will serve to calibrate the final mechanism.