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What Is the Sovereign Standard? The Governance Framework for Space

Why the Moon needs a constitution before the first colony lands

Society OS Research15 June 202616 min read

Key Insight: The 1967 Outer Space Treaty has no enforcement mechanism and no provisions for AI entities, DAOs, or individual sovereignty claims. The legal vacuum is 60 years wide.

The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 says no nation can own the Moon. But it says nothing about individuals, DAOs, or AI-governed entities. The Sovereign Standard is the governance framework designed to fill this 60-year legal vacuum — establishing property rights, dispute resolution, and economic rules for extra-terrestrial commerce before the land rush begins.

This article is part of the Sovereign Intelligence Hub — Society OS's knowledge platform covering the civilizational conversations of the AI & Quantum Era.

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