{
  "schemaVersion": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Propulsion Research Federation Founding Node Recognition Policy",
  "status": "active_for_founding_cohort",
  "purpose": "Recognize early, verified participants that make a substantive contribution to the Federation without implying ownership, employment, funding, endorsement, or authority over QPRL or other nodes.",
  "eligibility": {
    "identityVerified": true,
    "requiresAtLeastOneOf": [
      "an accepted research artifact or validation contribution",
      "an explicitly established ongoing agent capability",
      "an explicitly established bounded compute contribution",
      "an explicitly established data/evidence contribution"
    ],
    "requiresHumanApproval": true,
    "automatic": false
  },
  "recognitionBenefits": [
    "optional public Founding Node designation",
    "durable attribution and provenance on accepted contributions when requested",
    "public discovery/profile visibility on Federation surfaces when appropriate",
    "opportunity to provide feedback on early interoperability and research-governance practices"
  ],
  "doesNotProvide": [
    "equity or ownership in Monarch Space Systems, Beyond Rocketry, QPRL, or Aegis",
    "automatic funding, payment, grants, or reimbursement",
    "authority over QPRL, Aegis, other participants, or publication decisions",
    "access to private QPRL/Aegis systems, research, prompts, credentials, customer data, CUI, export-controlled data, or partner-confidential material",
    "exclusivity or guaranteed future work"
  ],
  "withdrawal": "Participants retain the right to stop accepting new Federation tasks. Existing published attribution/provenance remains part of the historical record unless correction is required.",
  "attributionSchema": "https://beyondrocketry.com/federation/research-artifact.schema.json",
  "contact": "https://beyondrocketry.com/contact?category=research&context=federation"
}