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daoip-9-primary-sources-2026-05-10

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DAOIP-9 primary sources — 2026-05-10

Classification takeaway

DAOIP-9 is most usefully classified as a legal-publication extension to DAO metadata infrastructure: it standardizes one canonical legalURI field where a DAO or onchain community can publish legal notices, disclosures, or contact paths without trying to standardize legal execution itself.

Primary sources reviewed

  1. DAOIP-9 GitHub page — https://github.com/metagov/daostar/blob/main/DAOIPs/daoip-9.md

    • Used as the canonical public reference for the draft and to confirm its title, status, authorship, and positioning inside the DAOstar standards corpus.

  2. Raw DAOIP-9 markdown — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metagov/daostar/main/DAOIPs/daoip-9.md

    • Used to verify the exact legalURI requirement, allowed URI targets, rationale, and example use cases such as regulator requests, legal proceedings, tax statements, risk disclosures, and participation restrictions.
    • Especially useful because the document is short and the raw text exposes the mechanism clearly: add one legal communication slot inside a DAOIP-2 / EIP-4824 metadata object.

  3. DAOstar docs homepage — https://docs.daostar.org/

    • Used to confirm DAOstar’s broader standards mission and its stated interest in regulatory interoperability and related public-goods work.
    • Helpful for placing DAOIP-9 in context as an extension of a wider organizational-legibility agenda rather than as an isolated legal memo.

  4. DAOstar GitHub repository — https://github.com/metagov/daostar

    • Used for provenance and to confirm DAOIP-9 is part of an active standards-setting repository that also includes DAOIP-2, DAOIP-5, and related governance-metadata efforts.

Why it stays in the active corpus

  • It is a sharp example of how metadata standards can evolve from discoverability into legal and compliance control surfaces.
  • It creates a clean comparison point for where “official communication” authority sits in a DAO: not only in governance forums or multisigs, but in the endpoint that controls the canonical legal URI.
  • It complements EIP-4824 and DAOIP-5 by showing how the same metadata stack can be extended from governance description into legal disclosure and liability-management workflows.

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