Revisions for ML-Draft-001

Published: 2026-02-17

Pages: 6 | Words: 2124

What changed: This revision incorporates feedback from early community discussion and aligns the document with the Meta-Layer governance tooling now in active use. Key changes include: Added a How to Participate (Quick Start) section near the top of the document to make entry points and participation pathways immediately visible. Clarified participation pathways, emphasizing that anyone may submit drafts, comment, or join workgroups without creating a Project. Introduced Projects, Guilds, Workgroups, and Coordinators as explicit governance primitives, with clear separation of roles. Defined Stabilization as a readiness phase rather than a point of finality. Clarified that ML-RFCs remain open to public comment after publication, with structured paths for errata, amendments, or superseding drafts. Added a Glossary to normalize terminology across drafts, tooling, and community practice. Identified https://rfc.themetalayer.org as the primary governance hub for participation. Performed editorial cleanup to improve clarity, consistency, and long-term readability. No changes were made to the core governance ethos of openness, rough consensus, or artifact-based public memory.