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P2 complete. 8 docs/nomads/ pages: index, reach, stash, bearers, maps-pay, pacts, standing, window. Docs firewall green (scans new nomads pages), no regression. All pages cross-reference docs/shared/. ---ci--- project: oy phase: 2 milestone: v0.3 status: complete tag_base: v0.2.x phase_role: execution requirements: covered: [] partial: [REQ-027] ---/ci---
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Standing
Standing (REQ-006) is a Holder's measured history on the mesh. It is the anti-gaming metric: a Bayesian score with time-decay, diversity weighting, and voucher-weighting, minus slashes for bad behavior. For a Nomad, the headline is that the mesh cannot be gamed — Standing rewards real production and resists the obvious attacks (volume spam, self-dealing, fake vouches).
What Standing is, in plain language
Standing is not a count of transactions. It is a Bayesian score: the mesh starts with a prior, updates it from each observed action, and decays old evidence so a Holder cannot rest on a burst of activity from years ago. Diversity weighting means a Nomad who acts across many services, many Stands, and many bearers accrues more Standing than a Nomad who repeats the same action with the same counterparty. Voucher-weighting means a vouch from a Holder with high Standing counts for more.
Why it matters to a Nomad
A Nomad mostly reads Standing, not computes it. Two places it shows up:
- Choosing a service. Maps shows a service operator's Standing so a Nomad can pick an operator with a real history over a freshly-spun-up alternative (see Maps & Pay).
- The Freeholder path. Earning a Standing threshold in 3 categories is one of the four Freeholder signals (REQ-005). A Nomad who accrues Standing over time is on the path to becoming a Freeholder.
What Standing is not
Standing is not a custodial position, a tier you buy, or a reputation score you can farm. It is not legacy custodial history. The Bayesian + time-decay + diversity design is exactly what makes it hard to game: there is no single input a Holder can pump.
The math, deferred
The full Bayesian formula (priors, decay rates, diversity sub-tables, slash conditions) is documented in the Freeholders section — a Nomad does not need the math to use the mesh. See Six Principles for the covenant Standing enforces, and Reach for the identity a Standing accrues to.