To be sure, most projects will address civil disputes.

Criminal laws and the criminal justice system are inherently creatures of the state.

But, deviant or asocial behaviors can be addressed by a private community through reputational signals, fines, and even ostracism. Private communities wishing to address serious threats to their members' well-being (life, liberty, sovereignty) will be required to employ private peace-keepers and security.

OSJF leaves it up to the developers, contributors, and communities themselves to architect and deploy dispute resolution tools that fit their specific use cases and circumstances.

A huge advantage to open-source ODR tools is transparency: biases can be determined and disputants can choose whether and to what extent to interact with those systems. This will produce fairer systems than current black-box solutions.

Members of communities, industries, or groups wishing to resolve their own disputes with open source solutions should voluntarily agree to their chosen dispute resolution system.

With programmatic payment protocols like Bitcoin, Lightning, Fedimint, e-cash, etc., arbitration decisions can be automatically executed.

There should be no need to return to a state-run court for permission to participate in such voluntary systems, or to enforce arbitration awards.

This remove a serious barrier to cross-border commerce: uncertainty over which jurisdiction's laws apply, and whether judgments can even be obtained or enforced.

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