{
  "document": "Counsel Attestation",
  "version": "1.2.0",
  "effective_date": "2026-06-08",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-08T18:00:00Z",
  "issuedAt": "2026-06-08T12:00:00Z",
  "organization": "Digital Bank of International Settlements",
  "attestation_status": "counsel-attested",
  "signatory": {
    "name": "Pandora C. Walker",
    "postNominal": "Esq.",
    "displayName": "Pandora C. Walker, Esq.",
    "title": "Chief Counsel",
    "additionalTitles": ["Founder", "Dowager Financial Viceroy"],
    "counselFirm": "Roy Walker, PLLC",
    "counselFirmTradeName": "Roy Walker Law PLLC",
    "counselFirmEntityId": "20231273347",
    "counselFirmRegistry": "https://opengovco.com/business/20231273347",
    "signatureForm": "/s/ Pandora C. Walker, Esq.",
    "capacity": "Chief Counsel, Digital Bank of International Settlements"
  },
  "scope": [
    "portal_disclosures",
    "member_tier_classifications",
    "officer_descriptions",
    "appointment_references",
    "trust_json",
    "governance_json",
    "policy_json",
    "gru_portal_narratives"
  ],
  "attestation": {
    "portal_governance_disclosures": "Institutional disclaimers, governance notices, member classifications, officer descriptions, appointment references, and member-tier designations published on the portal reflect counsel-reviewed and counsel-approved copy. Published descriptions are internally consistent with the current governance framework, appointments, charters, mandates, and treasury authorities reflected in the governing records.",
    "machine_readable_alignment": "trust.json, governance.json, and policy.json are synchronized with and accurately represent the canonical Chain 138 Stack A PMM Registry. No material conflicts have been identified between the machine-readable registry and the corresponding portal disclosures.",
    "governance_appointment_consistency": "Published governance narratives are consistent with governing charters, officer appointments, treasury mandates, judicial and diplomatic authority frameworks, continuing appointment instruments, and internal governance resolutions, including continued appointment and authority structures described in supporting records.",
    "supporting_artifact_characterization": "Supporting governance and appointment artifacts establish internal appointments, governance roles, judicial/diplomatic charters, treasury functions, and organizational mandates within the described framework. They are not treated as evidence of sovereign recognition or treaty authority."
  },
  "registry_reference": {
    "chain": "138",
    "stack": "A",
    "registry": "PMM",
    "canonicalIntegration": "0x86ADA6Ef91A3B450F89f2b751e93B1b7A3218895"
  },
  "publication_status": {
    "counsel_attestation_package": "published",
    "counsel_attestation_published_at": "2026-06-08",
    "governance_documents_registry": "published",
    "executed_treaty_pdfs": "publication_pending",
    "executed_charter_pdfs": "publication_pending",
    "executed_appointment_pdfs": "publication_pending",
    "unpublished_notice": "Executed instrument exists but publication remains pending."
  },
  "limitations": [
    "Governance and records-consistency review only",
    "Not a sovereign treaty instrument",
    "Not an external audit opinion",
    "Not legal advice to third parties",
    "No external governmental recognition, accreditation, licensing, diplomatic status determination, governmental endorsement, or sovereign validation implied"
  ],
  "artifacts": {
    "markdown": "/counsel-attestation.md",
    "json": "/counsel-attestation.json",
    "governance_documents": "/governance-documents.json",
    "validation_checklist": "docs/COUNSEL_ATTESTATION_VALIDATION_CHECKLIST.md"
  }
}