Open questions

1. How should missions measure value?Open
2. How should Mission Units (Mishys product language) relate to MCU (protocol language)?Open
3. How much ownership should past contributors retain?Open
4. Can ownership cascade across generations?Open
5. How should child missions participate in parent governance?Open
6. Should missions receive equal representation or contribution-weighted representation?Open
7. How do we prevent large missions from capturing federations?Open
8. How do we prevent thousands of tiny missions from overwhelming governance?Open
9. How should trademarks and certification work with open-source forks?Open
10. What rights should always remain individual rather than contribution-weighted?Open
11. How should missions resolve disagreement?Open
12. When should a mission fork instead of voting?Open
13. Who may set reference values and multipliers without recreating founder capture (the oracle problem)?Open
14. Can Missionism measure whether a mechanism removes more coordination complexity than it adds—without recreating the bureaucracy it claims to compress?Proposed
15. How do we keep mission objectives legible enough to guide ownership without collapsing into thirty ambiguous scores worse than a single financial signal?Open

Preferred directions that are not yet canonical belong in docs/proposals/. Things we want implementations to test belong in docs/experiments/. Solved items move into spec/ with a /changes entry—not silently into website copy.