Stewardship
The neutrality rules, in public
insurancemcps is meant to be a safe place for the whole industry to list, compare and vote. That only works if the rules are written down and the steward is held to them too. This is that page.
Who the steward is
InsurEco stewards this site: it pays for hosting, keeps the software running, moderates listings against the published criteria, and staffs the Council process. That is the whole of the role.
The steward does not own the listings or the ideas. A listing belongs to the builder who posted it. An idea belongs to the person who posted it. The steward may remove a listing that breaks the rules and will say why; it may not claim, edit for its own benefit, or resell anything posted here.
Listing and ranking
- Anyone can list an MCP server. There is no fee to list and no fee to stay listed.
- Nobody pays for ranking, placement, a badge or a trust tier. Trust tiers are earned through verification and Council review only.
- Default order is the same for everyone. On the builders directory it is alphabetical. The steward appears where its name falls.
- Delisting happens for published reasons only (misrepresentation, unsafe data handling, abandoned or broken servers) and the reason is recorded.
Reviews of the steward's own servers
- InsurEco's servers go through the same submission, the same criteria and the same Council review as everyone else's.
- A panel that reviews an InsurEco server never includes an InsurEco reviewer. Council members disclose their employer and any commercial relationship with the builder under review, and step off a panel where one exists.
- Review scores and the panel composition are published with the review, so anyone can check this.
Paying for a faster review
When it is offered, a builder may pay to move a Council review request up the queue. That is all the payment does. It never changes who sits on the panel, how the panel scores, or whether the server earns the badge, and a published scorecard never says whether a review was paid for priority. The queue itself is worked in one order for everyone: paid priority first, then oldest request.
- Priority is a place in line, not a result. A paid review can be declined, scored low, or have its badge withdrawn on exactly the same grounds as any other.
- Scorecards do not show priority. Neither do the reviewers: an expert is never told whether the review on their desk was paid for.
- Every priority payment is recorded in the audit trail with the request it applied to.
Ideas belong to whoever posted them
- An idea posted to the Idea Lab belongs to the person who posted it. Posting grants the site permission to display it and nothing more.
- A private idea is seen only by its owner and the stewards, who use it for nothing but moderation.
- Builders who attach themselves to an idea do so in public. The steward gets no head start on any idea, public or private.
Fair play in the Idea Lab
- One Bio-ID, one set of votes: 5 Lab votes a day, at most 3 on any one idea.
- Owners cannot vote on their own ideas.
- A spike of votes from newly created accounts is flagged for review, and votes found to be manufactured are voided.
- Votes from any one organization count toward an idea's threshold up to 25% of that threshold. An idea reaches a stage because many people want it, not because one company does.
- These limits are configuration, not code, and the current values are the ones shown on this page.
Lab votes have no monetary value
Lab votes, including bonus votes earned for Council work, cannot be bought, sold, transferred or redeemed for anything. They are a signal of what the industry wants built. Nothing else.
If you think a rule was broken
Say so. Every moderation action, review and vote adjustment is recorded in an audit trail, and a steward will show the record. Contact details are in the site footer.