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Identity and conflicts

Claims, not ownership: why a project id proves nothing about who publishes it, and what this index does when two sites publish the same one.

A DreamWeave project id is a UUID its author picked. Nobody allocated it. That is what lets a mod survive moving from GitHub Pages to its own domain without becoming a different mod, and it is also why an id proves nothing about who is allowed to use it. Two unrelated sites can publish the same id tomorrow, by accident or on purpose, and neither the protocol nor this index can stop them.

So this index never models “the project with id X”. It models claims: the pair of a project id and the site that publishes a manifest for it.

One id, one site#

The normal case. The claim’s page is /projects/<id>/<site>/, and /projects/<id>/ lists it as the only claim. Relationships naming the id resolve to it.

One id, two sites#

An identity conflict, shown on the conflicts page, on both claims, on the id’s page, and in the status line of every page. Neither claim is hidden. Neither overwrites the other. Their releases are not merged. The newer one does not win, the more popular one does not win, the one with the better name does not win.

A relationship that names the id resolves to both, and says so. A client meeting this should ask its user which site to trust; the protocol says a client should treat a manifest for a known id from anywhere new as a separate claim that needs confirmation.

One name, two ids#

Two projects. Names are display text and change whenever an author likes. They are never used to match anything.

Moving hosts#

A project that moves keeps its id. This index recognizes a move two ways, and only two:

  1. A redirect it saw itself. The enrolled source URL now redirects to, or leads to, a different site. The new site’s record notes the old one and the evidence, the old site leaves the state, and the claim’s first event at its new home shows what changed rather than everything.
  2. A reviewed curation entry. A [[migration]] in network/curation.toml names the project, the old and new site index URLs, the reason and the date. The old claim is marked as moved, stays visible, and stops being counted as a conflict. The site labels this as this index’s decision.

This index does not infer moves from matching names, matching Nexus Mods ids, matching repository names or matching file names. All of those are coincidences waiting to be exploited.

When the protocol gains publisher keys, continuity of a signing key becomes a third kind of evidence. Until then, it is not something this index pretends to know.