The institution
Beyond the mission statement: the legal entity, the people it names, the lock that binds it, the patents it stewards, the conduct rules it must adopt, and the deliberately scarce membership. Everything cited, nothing embellished.
01Five pages
Each page covers one dimension of the institution, grounded in the signed constitution.
01 · The institution
DETIO FOUNDATION LTD — Digital Elastic Technologies, Internet Organization — is an Australian technology research organisation (ACN 699 651 771) responsible for the VirtEngine protocol and the DSEMA multi-agent architecture.
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02 · Deep dive
The lock is not one clause — it is a lattice of mutually reinforcing provisions: purpose restrictions, distribution prohibitions, entrenched Protected Provisions, consent gates, anti-capture protocol rules, and a charity-only winding-up destination.
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03 · Patents & licensing
Two patent families held for public benefit: granted Australian patent AU2024203136B2, in force until 12 May 2044, covering the VirtEngine system, and the patent-pending DSEMA multi-agent claims — alongside an Apache 2.0 open-source policy and constitutionally bound licensing preferences.
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04 · Clause 10
The constitution obliges the directors to adopt and maintain a Code of Conduct that gives practical effect to the purposes, public-interest duties, confidentiality, conflict management, privacy, safety, and anti-private-capture principles — binding everyone with material system access.
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05 · Clause 13
Membership of DETIO FOUNDATION LTD is deliberately small and consent-gated: at most two Ordinary Members alongside the Founding Member. Here is the process as the constitution actually defines it — including why most supporters should not seek membership at all.
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The clause-level analysis behind these pages lives in the constitution explorer; commitments you can check are on the transparency page.
