# Soft protocols

`kaal:entity:soft-protocols`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `soft-protocols`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2021 to 2026.

**2021**

- [3782214-033](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782214-033) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Without unifying transcendental ideals, liminal cases will fragment a decentralized network; transcendental values are therefore always necessary to maintain the stability of a network and should be the first thing a DAO establishes.
  > Without such unifying ideals, liminal cases will fragment the network. Ultimately, transcendental values are always necessary to maintain the sta- bility of a network, so they are the first thing the DAO should establish.
  Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214

**2026**

- [6269518-030](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/6269518-030) [normative/argued] -- Citation accuracy standards should be treated as an evolving body of soft protocols rather than a fixed set of rules, consistent with the dynamic regulation framework.
  > Consistent with the dynamic regulation framework, citation accuracy standards should be treated as an evolving body of soft protocols rather than a fixed set of rules.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Citation Honesty Mechanisms in Weighted Directed Acyclic Graph Governance (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6269518

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