Technate P&C
Principles and Classes system for formalization of relationships between organizations within a Technate.
Principles and Classes database
http://standards.ctrl-alt-del.si or other site maintains a database of principles and classes and eases access to them by linking them together as appropriate while maintaining the original content as entered. See Principles and Classes article for details on P&C system functionality.
Principles and Classes compliance toolkit
It is the responsibility of the director to check people's and organizations' compliance to principles and apply certification as appropriate. To simplify this task, a toolkit may exist which may simplify or automate this procedure as applicable.
Technate EA
Energy Accounting framework – software framework with everything required to run an Energy Accounting system within a Technate.
Overview
Each organization has a server which hosts the database into which it's employees enter how much time they have spent on a particular task and using which equipment. The database also maintains the power (W) of the individual equipment pieces as well as automatically downloads the global data from the current Energy Input Labeling standards. Data from the individual tasks (power times time is energy used) is assigned to a final product, the total of which is used as production capacity of the organization.
This data can be reviewed and moderated by the organization before it is published to the Internet, from where it is collected by a global database of Technate members and added together into a Technate-wide production capacity total. (Should also keep Technate population totals, maybe get them from organizations.)
This total is then used by the organizations providing energy credit accounts where it is divided amongst the total population of the Technate and a balance on each individual account is maintained. This system also executes purchases by substracting the energy cost for the completed purchases from the individual accounts and informing the parties involved appropriately. (Should have signed records of this.)
Site specification
The site of the organization must contain a http://www.example.org/index.xml which contains the URLs of the organizations' XML data on the (number of) products available to the Technate and their energy costs. These should be generated from the data publishing moderation tool, sourcing from real-time calculations from the database.
The organizations' software should allow each employee to log in and enter their information for the particular task. Identification of individual organization employees should be done using Open-ID as a form of domain-logon. Each organization may have any number of employees and every employee may enter any number of tasks. Tasks should relate to a specific product. There may be various mechanisms to simplify the entry of information, either by grouping and templating tasks, or by integration with other work management software.
The Technate-wide production capacity totals-keeper should maintain a list of organizations that are members of the Technate and their http://www.example.org websites. (P&C integration?) This data can be utilized by a periodic or real-time retrieval script, which would fetch the production capacity data and publish a total to the Internet in an XML file. This site may contain the facilities to maintain an accurate population count using similar mechanisms.
The energy credit account-keeper should maintain each account as a sum of global and private data. Global data is based on the production capacity of the Technate, retrieved from the totals-keeper over the Internet in real-time. Private data is kept as a saved state for each individual and represents the individual's spending for the current accounting period. For details on how this works with a dynamic accounting period, see article on Dynamic Accounting Period.