Core, Official, and Ancillary Groups

A three-stage ladder for a group's standing in the whole — fringe, recognised, critical — with recognition granted by the assembly rather than claimed.

Anyone may start a group. That is the first rule, and the ladder exists because of it: if entry is free, standing cannot also be free, or the words part of this mean nothing.

Ancillary groups operate at the edge of the network, without official recognition or any role in governing the whole. This is not a demotion; it is where every group begins, and many stay there usefully forever. Official groups have developed to an appropriate maturity and have been formally recognised by the assembly as an integral part of the whole's governance and functioning. Core groups are those the whole actually depends on — critical to its proper function and accountability.

Two conditions attach to the upper rungs and they are the point of the ladder. Official and Core groups must have their domains of authority and responsibility, and their flows of information and energy, clearly articulated — because a body cannot be accountable for what has never been described (Accountability · Necessity Of Accountability). And anyone in the system may request and receive information about how any of them functions (Requirement Of Transparency). Standing is therefore paid for in legibility. The more the whole relies on you, the more of you must be visible.

Movement up the ladder is granted, never taken: an evaluating body assesses, the assembly approves (The LIØNSBERG General Assembly · Legitimacy). The page says of itself that this is a work in progress to be grown into as the system matures, which is the honest posture for a structure nobody has yet run.

Also called: the three tiers of group standing · Ancillary, Official, Core Stands on: Legitimacy · Accountability · Transparency · Federation Opens onto: The LIØNSBERG General Assembly · Requirement Of Transparency · Necessity Of Accountability · Circle (as gathering) · Cell · Supercell · First Degree Groups · Core Enterprise · Jurisdiction · Domain · Term Limits And Rotation In play: beyond — met when a gathering asks to be counted on by people who are not in it Sources: Core, Official, and Ancillary Groups (root page, draft, fifteen lines, 2023-era voice) · Organize and Federate (root page) · lionsberg.wiki: Core, Official, and Ancillary Groups Open: No criteria are given for moving between the tiers — only who grants the move. "Appropriate level of maturity" is the whole test, and it is not a test. · The adjacent First Degree / Second Degree Groups scheme was judged superseded; whether the same ruling retires this ladder, or whether this is the part worth keeping, has not been decided. · The page predates the Cell language and speaks of Groups and circles; how the three tiers map onto Cell, Circle (as gathering) and Supercell is unstated.