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Design Transparency
Open Design Questions
Sixteen unresolved problems in ValiChord’s design — documented because funders, ethics boards, and institutional partners will ask first, and because honest acknowledgment of open problems is more credible than silence. Each includes precedents from existing initiatives, ValiChord’s current thinking, and which phase resolves it.
01
Do original authors need to consent to validation?
Resolves: Phase 1 governance
02
Who pays for compute?
Resolves: Phase 0 captures compute requirements as a data dimension
03
What happens after a negative Harmony Record?
Resolves: Phase 1 governance
04
Original author’s right of reply
Resolves: Phase 1 process design
05
How are Phase 0 studies selected without bias?
Resolves: Phase 0 governance — external advisor review
06
Restricted and sensitive research
Resolves: Phase 2+
07
Holochain platform dependency
Mitigation: architectural separation of concepts from implementation
08
Validator training and calibration
Resolves: Phase 0 reveals what validators found unclear
09
Correcting a flawed Harmony Record
Resolves: Phase 1 annotation format and governance trigger
10
Long-term record preservation
Resolves: Phase 2 — archival format and institutional partnerships
11
Validator identity verification at scale
Resolves: Phase 1 — ORCID or institutional email linking
12
Submission-side cherry-picking
Ongoing — mitigated by funder mandates in Phase 2+
13
Cross-border data jurisdiction
Resolves: Phase 2+ — requires legal expertise
14
Who pays for persistently indeterminate validation outcomes?
Resolves: Phase 0 reveals frequency; Phase 1 resolves fee structure
15
How should validator reputation scale without becoming permanent authority?
Resolves: Phase 0 generates agreement data; Phase 1 designs weighting function
16
What constitutes a sufficient environment match for validator priority assignment — and at what granularity?
Resolves: Phase 0 captures environment data; Phase 1 designs matching thresholds
Full treatment of each question — precedents from existing initiatives, ValiChord’s current thinking, and resolution phases
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