PSW v1.0 gives every individual a sovereign digital node: a personal environment with a data vault, an AI agent, and a module system. It answers the question “Where do you live digitally?” with architectural precision. But PSW v1.0 treats the node as a unified surface — every visitor encounters the same interface, regardless of their relationship to the owner, their willingness to pay, or the context of the interaction. This companion specification introduces PSW Zones: the programmable interaction architecture that extends PSW v1.0 to support contextual surfaces. A Zone is a permissioned, programmable subspace of a single PSW node — each with its own access rules, monetization model, AI agent personality, and shared state objects — all anchored to the owner’s single did:techmanity. Zones solve the fragmentation problem that every professional faces today. The internet currently offers two options: fragmentation (separate LinkedIn, Instagram, Substack, Patreon, and personal website accounts, each with its own disconnected reputation) or uniformity (one profile for everyone, forcing over-sharing with some audiences and under-sharing with others). PSW Zones introduces a third option: unified identity with contextual surfaces. One TIP DID. One reputation. One economic history. Infinite programmable presentations of that identity to different audiences under different economic conditions. Zones are classified along three orthogonal dimensions forming a Zone Signature (ZC-Class / ZT-Tier / ZA-Archetype): Zone Class (ZC) — what the zone is for: Personal, Broadcast, Collaboration, Economic, Intellectual Property, Autonomous. Zone Tier (ZT) — how it monetizes: Open, Gated, Subscribed, Transactional, Outcome-Based, Hybrid. Zone Archetype (ZA) — how it behaves: Sanctum, Market, Lab, Forum, Hub, Exchange, Oracle. This paper specifies the complete PSW Zones architecture: the Zone Module data model, the Dynamic Interaction Interface (DII), the cognitive load model (Active Zones), the Zone Composition Protocol (ZCP) with three composition modes (merge, embed, federate) and complete data governance specifications for each, the Zone Discovery Record (ZDR) for Technē integration, the zone reputation system as a standalone Verifiable Credential, the five default zone templates for mass adoption, the KNOWDES integration for zone-addressed INTENTs and spam prevention, the DCP integration for Private Zone posthumous governance, and the complete security and trust model. PSW Zones is the answer to the question that every PSW node owner asks: “How do I show different things to different people?” With Zones, one node becomes a multi-layered, programmable economic network — a personal economy that the owner controls, and that others can discover, subscribe to, and interact with on precisely the owner’s terms.
Rashon Rahming (Fri,) studied this question.