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A platform community of interest (CoI) is responsible for the DIDO infrastructure that resides on each node in the node network. Direct involvement within a platform covers the gamut from observers, to passive users of the software, and significant contributors to the community or de facto standards. As a general rule, domains, ecosystems, and ecospheres participate in platform communities rather than sponsor them. For the most part, platforms are already existing, self-contained communities with well established governance. Common CoI activities are bug tracking, collaboration and voting on resolutions of problems and future directions.
Some examples of platforms are: