{
  "$schema": "https://iarpg.com/leaderless-network-taxonomy.schema.json",
  "id": "https://iarpg.com/leaderless-network-taxonomy.json",
  "release": "IARPG-OPS-2",
  "version": "2.0.30-wip",
  "status": "reviewed-with-limitations",
  "truth_boundary": "A non-scoring role-separation method. It does not identify real people, establish membership or guilt, authorize recruitment, or provide operational network mapping.",
  "roles": [
    {
      "id": "label-brand",
      "label": "Label or brand",
      "definition": "A reusable name, symbol, slogan, or aesthetic that can be adopted without verified authorization.",
      "evidence_needed": "Use of the label or visual form.",
      "cannot_infer": "Membership, ideology, coordination, or sponsor."
    },
    {
      "id": "identity",
      "label": "Collective identity",
      "definition": "A participant's self-presentation as part of a shared identity or ethos.",
      "evidence_needed": "Direct self-identification in the relevant time and context.",
      "cannot_infer": "Authority over other participants or permanent affiliation."
    },
    {
      "id": "audience",
      "label": "Audience",
      "definition": "People who view, follow, discuss, or receive the movement's content.",
      "evidence_needed": "Exposure or subscription evidence.",
      "cannot_infer": "Support, participation, membership, or susceptibility."
    },
    {
      "id": "participant",
      "label": "Participant",
      "definition": "A person who takes part in a bounded public action or campaign.",
      "evidence_needed": "Direct evidence of the specific participation.",
      "cannot_infer": "Technical role, command, or responsibility for unrelated conduct."
    },
    {
      "id": "amplifier",
      "label": "Amplifier",
      "definition": "A person or outlet that redistributes claims or symbols and increases visibility.",
      "evidence_needed": "Documented republication or amplification.",
      "cannot_infer": "Agreement, coordination, sponsor, or operator identity."
    },
    {
      "id": "infrastructure-administrator",
      "label": "Infrastructure administrator",
      "definition": "A person with access to a channel, account, site, document, or other coordination infrastructure.",
      "evidence_needed": "Verified administrative access for the relevant system and period.",
      "cannot_infer": "Movement-wide leadership or responsibility for all users."
    },
    {
      "id": "campaign-organizer",
      "label": "Campaign organizer",
      "definition": "A person who proposes goals, wording, logistics, or public calls for a bounded campaign.",
      "evidence_needed": "Authenticated planning or organizational evidence.",
      "cannot_infer": "Permanent hierarchy or authority outside the campaign."
    },
    {
      "id": "technical-actor",
      "label": "Technical actor",
      "definition": "A person linked by direct evidence to a specific technical action.",
      "evidence_needed": "Court-tested, platform, forensic, or authenticated direct evidence.",
      "cannot_infer": "Ideological representativeness, sponsor, or responsibility for a broader brand."
    },
    {
      "id": "splinter-group",
      "label": "Splinter group",
      "definition": "A bounded group that uses, rejects, or modifies a wider label while maintaining distinct membership or coordination.",
      "evidence_needed": "Distinct self-description, infrastructure, participants, or legal record.",
      "cannot_infer": "Control of the umbrella label or continuity with every earlier campaign."
    },
    {
      "id": "imitator-false-flag",
      "label": "Imitator or false flag",
      "definition": "An actor that adopts a label or symbols without demonstrated continuity and may seek attention or misattribution.",
      "evidence_needed": "Evidence of branding plus contradictions or separate origin; sponsor remains independently testable.",
      "cannot_infer": "Intent or sponsor merely because the claim is false or copied."
    },
    {
      "id": "externally-assigned-member",
      "label": "Externally assigned member",
      "definition": "A person labeled by media, researchers, law enforcement, or opponents rather than by verified self-identification.",
      "evidence_needed": "The assigning source and stated basis.",
      "cannot_infer": "Actual affiliation, guilt, or acceptance of the label."
    }
  ],
  "comparison_dimensions": [
    "identity boundary",
    "decision process",
    "formal and informal authority",
    "infrastructure dependence",
    "participation threshold",
    "continuity mechanism",
    "internal disagreement",
    "accountability",
    "attribution complexity",
    "rights and remedy"
  ],
  "prohibited_uses": [
    "No guilt by association or audience membership.",
    "No threat, dangerousness, loyalty, credibility, susceptibility, capacity, recruitability, or targetability score.",
    "No real-person identification, contact, recruitment, surveillance, infiltration, or disruption instructions."
  ]
}