Infrastructure

- Each server instance of the PPP is hosted by a central server which is collectively owned by all citizens of the respective Selfed.
- The central server is located inside the Selfed's Core, locked in a high-security room that can only be unlocked with the consensus of all Selfed's members.
- The central server is connected to a directional antenna setup required for geolocation (see below).

Features

- The software is entirely open-source (both the client and the server)
- Users are allowed to vote and/or submit any proposal about the Selfed they belong to (but not about those they do not belong).
- Aside from the aforementioned scope limitations, everyone is allowed to vote for any proposal they want regardless of any physical or psychological trait (race, age, gender, etc.).
- Users are allowed to cast and/or change their votes whenever they want, and how many times they want (the previous vote is overwritten).
- Each vote is expressed by a numerical value ranging from a minimum of "-1" (complete disagreement) to "+1" (complete agreement).
- Each vote must be validated through a biometric identification (such as fingerprint). This is required to prevent multiple voting: in case of a match, the voter will be recognized as an old user, and the new vote will overwrite the previous one. In case of no match, the voter will be recognized as a new user, and registered into the server instance.
- Location of voting/submission is automatically verified through radio geolocation techniques such as TDoA (Time Difference of Arrival) and/or AoA (Angle of Arrival). This is required in order to enforce the aforementioned scope limitation: any vote/submission for any given Selfed will only be accepted as long as the geolocation confirms it's coming from a member of that specific Selfed.
- Both the submission and the voting processes are entirely anonymous and private: users aren't associated with any nickname and/or ID number; the software does not display any info about who submitted a proposal, nor who voted it, nor how they voted, and not even the resulting average preference score. The sole publicly available information is the resulting ordinal ranking.
- Each server instance stores: a database of proposals made by members of that specific Selfed for that specific Selfed and, for each proposal, the votes received by each member.
- All personal data (biometric and geolocation) is encrypted.
- Any proposal database features by default a pre-existing fixed proposal called "Null proposal", which can be roughly interpreted as: "Nothing is to be done".
- Proposals are ranked in descending order based on their average preference score; they are shown in the client instance listed from the one with the highest average score (on the top) to that with the lowest average score (on the bottom); the ranking is constantly updated in real-time according the new incoming votes.
- Any proposal shall be automatically regarded as law as long as it does not contradict another one with a higher average preference score. This means that every proposal that ranks below the Null proposal shall be ignored.
- Any user that does not cast a vote for over 1 year will be regarded as dead; all of his data (including his votes, but not his proposals) will be automatically deleted from the database, and he won't be counted anymore among the current citizens in the average calculations.
- Any proposal whose average preference score remains below that of the Null Proposal for over 1 year will be automatically deleted from the database.