Decentralized Deliberation Stack (DDS)

Protocolo Semántico y de Datos

A W3C Community Group working draft defining common schemas and three open interfaces — Plan, Collect, Analyze — so that deliberation data written by one tool can be read by any other without bilateral integration. DDS separates the process of deliberation from the platforms hosting it: any conforming planning tool, collection tool, or analyzer can participate against the same shared data stream. Built on AT Protocol for transport, identity, and machine-enforceable schemas (required), with optional permanent archival (Arweave / Filecoin / Logos Storage) and optional on-chain anchoring (Ethereum) for verifiability.

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Licencia Mixed / no single licence — specification work follows the W3C Community Group contribution process; website and proof-of-concept software are MPL-2.0 unless otherwise stated. See the project's licence map. https://github.com/dds-wg/dds
Estado de Desarrollo 📝 Borrador
Propietario W3C Decentralized Deliberation Stack (DDS) Community Group; coordinated through the dds-wg GitHub organization. Governance stated as independent of any single company or institution; no public organization members listed on GitHub
Órgano de Gobierno W3C Community Group (Decentralized Deliberation Stack CG; governance stated as independent of any single company or institution)
País International (W3C Community Group; contributor locations not published)
Año de Inicio 2026
Stack TypeScript (monorepo); specification is language-agnostic. Depends on AT Protocol Lexicon for machine-enforceable schemas
Financiamiento Unknown — no funder or sponsor disclosed on the site, GitHub organization, or community files
Última Investigación 1 jul 2026

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Protocolo Semántico y de Datos Atributos

Orígenes Collective intelligence / civic deliberation — motivated by tool siloing (results from one deliberation tool cannot feed another without custom integration), unverifiable platform-held results, and data loss when a provider disappears
Base de Datos N/A — defines schemas, not storage. Data resides on AT Protocol Personal Data Servers, which participants may self-host, with optional archival to Arweave, Filecoin, or Logos Storage
Lenguaje de Consulta N/A — no query language defined; data is read from the AT Protocol data stream using ATproto's own mechanisms
Formatos de Datos AT Protocol Lexicon schemas for deliberation artifacts across the Plan / Collect / Analyze lifecycle; every record cryptographically signed at origin
Edición Colaborativa en Vivo N/A — deliberation rounds are asynchronous by design; analysis from one round triggers the next
Edición de Texto Enriquecido N/A — specification defines data schemas, not editing surfaces
Soporte Móvil N/A — specification; client support is up to implementing tools
Soporte Web Yes — reference tooling and website are web-based; AT Protocol is a web-native substrate
Aplicaciones Nativas N/A — specification; no reference client
Términos Free / open specification; no fees. Every layer can be self-hosted, including the AT Protocol Personal Data Server
Fondos Unknown — no figures published
Basado En AT Protocol (required — federated transport, identity, and Lexicon schemas); Arweave / Filecoin / Logos Storage (optional permanent archive); Ethereum (optional on-chain verification and identity). Composes with external voting protocols including Vocdoni, Freedom Tool and CarbonVote rather than defining voting itself
Compatibilidad con la Web Semántica Partial — schemas are expressed as AT Protocol Lexicons rather than RDF, OWL, or SHACL. Machine-enforceable and interoperable within the ATproto ecosystem, but not RDF-native and not SPARQL-queryable
Madurez del Protocolo / Estandarización W3C Community Group working draft — incubation stage, with the stated goal of maturing into a standard. A Community Group Report is not a W3C Recommendation and carries no W3C endorsement. No reference implementation shipped; SDK announced as forthcoming
Tipo de Vocabulario / Ontología Deliberation process / Collective decision-making — a domain-specific vocabulary covering consultation design (rounds, modules, eligibility, feedback loops), participant input (opinions, votes, comments), and analysis outputs (clusters, consensus, outliers). Not a general-purpose vocabulary
Patrón de Uso Embedded in other protocols and applications — DDS is a shared layer that deliberation tools implement, not a standalone product. Three loosely coupled interfaces let independent teams supply planning tools, collection tools (wikisurvey, demographics survey, importers, social media APIs, live conversation capture), and analyzers (opinion mapping, topic mapping, dimensionality reduction, LLM-based sensemaking) that compose without bilateral integration