Version 1.0 · Effective 1 July 2026
These are the Member Terms of the DSI Mission Membership Program (the “Terms”). They are issued by Dynamic Standards International Limited (“DSI”, “we”, “us”), an Australian-registered not-for-profit organization that holds custody of SMB1001. DSI is registered with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC) and these Terms are to be performed consistently with DSI’s charitable purposes.
By applying to join the Mission Membership Program, your organization (the “Mission Member”, “you”) agrees to be bound by these Terms. The Mission Membership Application Form captures your organization’s details and confirms your acceptance.
An organization joins the Mission Membership Program and becomes a Mission Supporter by completing the Mission Membership Application Form (available at mission.dsi.org) (“Application Form”) and paying the first Annual Contribution.
Submitting the Application Form constitutes your acceptance of these Terms in the version current at the time of application. The version accepted is recorded in your Mission Member record.
Mission Membership status begins on the date DSI confirms acceptance of your Application Form and receipt of your first Annual Contribution (the “Effective Date”).
DSI may, in its sole discretion, decline an application that is inconsistent with DSI’s charitable purposes, its compliance obligations, or with the public character of the Mission Membership Program.
The Membership Program is open to organizations of any size or sector, in any jurisdiction: micro businesses, small and medium-sized businesses, large enterprises, government entities, and not-for-profit organizations.
The Mission Membership Program has five Tiers, each with a fixed Annual Contribution amount calibrated to organization size. Tier amounts and bands are published at mission.dsi.org and recorded in your Application Form.
Your Tier is determined by your organization’s size at the date of application, declared by you in the Application Form. At each renewal under clause 4.2, DSI will ask you to confirm your organization’s size. Where your size has changed materially, more or fewer employees crossing a Tier boundary, DSI will move you to the appropriate Tier with effect from the next anniversary of the Effective Date. A Tier change does not, of itself, affect your Founding designation under clause 6 (subject to clause 6.4). Where your local jurisdiction uses a different SMB classification framework, DSI determines the appropriate Tier in good faith having regard to that classification.
Your Annual Contribution is payable in advance on the Effective Date and on each anniversary thereafter, or on such other schedule as DSI agrees with you in writing at sign-up. Your continued Mission Membership status, and your continued recognition under clause 6, depends on payment of each Annual Contribution as it falls due.
All amounts payable under these Terms are exclusive of applicable taxes. The tax treatment of payments is governed by applicable legislation in each party’s jurisdiction. Payments are processed through DSI’s nominated payment platform, which applies taxes in accordance with its obligations under applicable law. Each party is responsible for their own tax compliance and obligations arising from these Terms.
DSI may review the Annual Contribution amounts from time to time. Any increase will not apply during your current Term and will apply only on renewal under clause 4.
Annual Contributions are denominated in United States Dollars (USD) by default, or in such other currency as DSI agrees with you in writing in the Application Form. Annual Contributions are processed via DSI’s online payment platform. Payment is collected automatically on the Effective Date and on each anniversary thereafter in accordance with clause 3.3. Where you pay in a currency other than USD, the rate of conversion applied is that published by the payment platform at the time of processing; you bear any currency fluctuation between invoice and payment.
Mission Membership status runs for twelve months from the Effective Date.
Mission Membership status renews automatically for successive twelve-month periods on each anniversary of the Effective Date, unless either party gives written notice of non-renewal not less than 30 days before the anniversary. DSI will send a renewal reminder to Mission Supporters at least 60 days before each anniversary.
You may end your Mission Membership status on 30 days’ written notice. Annual Contributions already paid are not refunded.
DSI may end your Mission Membership status on written notice if you materially breach these Terms and do not remedy the breach within 30 days of being notified, or in the circumstances set out in clauses 9.3 (Ethical Conduct / Reputation) and 9.4 (Sanctions).
On ending, you must immediately cease using the DSI name, logo, and Mission Supporter badge in current and forward-looking marketing, communications, and procurement-facing materials, and you must cease commercial use of SMB1001 under the license in clause 5.2. Your badge under clause 6.2 lapses and your name comes off the Mission Supporter Wall on the same date. If you are a Founding Mission Supporter, your inclusion in the Honor Wall snapshot (where applicable under clause 6.3) is a historical record and is unaffected. Recognition recorded in DSI publications already published is not retracted. Clauses 5.2.3(vii), 6.3, 6.4, 8 (Confidentiality), 9 (Acknowledgements), this clause 4.5, 12 (Force Majeure) and 13 survive the end of Mission Membership status.
As a Mission Member, you receive the following benefits while your Mission Membership status is current, subject to the Benefits Commencement paragraph at the end of this clause 5.1. Benefits are the same across all Tiers; the differentiator between Tiers is the Annual Contribution amount, not the benefits.
Benefits are non-transferable and may be exercised only by your organization. Pre-release SMB1001 materials are confidential under clause 8 until publicly released.
The Mission Membership platform, through which platform-delivered benefits are provided (including the Authorized Partner Directory, DSI Registrar Agent, digitally verifiable badges, reports and briefings, and the Mission Supporter community), is scheduled to launch in Q4 2026 (“Platform Launch”). Benefits delivered through the platform become available from Platform Launch. The following apply from your Effective Date regardless of Platform Launch: (a) your Founding or standard designation and recognition under clause 6; (b) the Commercial Use License under clause 5.2, and where your Effective Date precedes Platform Launch the 2026 release of SMB1001 is a Licensed Release from your Effective Date; and (c) any benefit DSI is reasonably able to deliver other than through the platform, including pre-release early-access materials under paragraph (c) above, which DSI will deliver directly. Platform Launch timing is a good-faith estimate. A delay in Platform Launch does not affect the Term, renewal, or payment obligations under clauses 3 and 4.
DSI grants you, for the period your Mission Membership status is current, a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any annual release of SMB1001 that is published or made available to you while your Mission Membership status is current, including any release provided to you under the early-access arrangement in clause 5.2 (each a “Licensed Release”), in the conduct of your commercial operations, on the terms of this clause 5.2. This license is granted by DSI directly in its capacity as custodian and rights-holder of SMB1001 and is separate from and independent of the Commercial Use License Agreement available at dsi.org/licence-agreement-commercial. The terms of that public license do not limit or govern the rights granted under this clause 5.2.
Subject to clause 5.2.3, the license permits you to:
SMB1001 is provided to you on an “as is” basis. DSI makes no warranty that the use of SMB1001 will cause your products, services, or operations to meet any regulatory requirement, industry standard, or customer expectation, and DSI is not liable for any consequence of your use of SMB1001 in your commercial operations beyond DSI’s role as custodian of the standard.
If you send DSI any suggestions, feedback, ideas, proposed improvements, or other materials relating to SMB1001 or any DSI product or service (“Feedback”), you grant DSI a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, and otherwise exploit that Feedback for any purpose, without restriction and without any obligation to compensate or credit you. You represent that you have the right to grant this license in respect of any Feedback you provide. DSI does not assume any obligation of confidence in respect of Feedback unless separately agreed in writing.
Your Mission Membership includes access to the DSI Authorized Partner Program at no extra cost. To activate your Authorized Partner access, complete the activation form at mission.dsi.org/activate-partner. Authorized Partner access entitles your organization to:
The terms governing your Authorized Partner access are set out in the DSI Authorized Partner Program Terms, available at partners.dsi.org/terms. Your Authorized Partner access is concurrent with and conditional on your Mission Membership status being current. Authorized Partner access lapses on the same date your Mission Membership status ends.
Organizations whose Effective Date is at or before 11.59pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time on 31 December 2026 (the “Snapshot Date”) are recognized as Founding Mission Supporters of DSI for as long as they remain current Mission Members. From 1 January 2027 onwards, new Mission Supporters are recognized as Mission Supporters.
While you are a current Mission Supporter, your organization is listed on the public DSI Mission Supporter Wall. Each Mission Supporter on the Wall carries a badge identifying its cohort:
The badge is a recognition designation only. It does not confer any additional rights, governance role, or commercial preference. Recognition is conditional on you being in good standing under these Terms, including ongoing payment of the Annual Contribution. Forward-looking recognition may be withheld, qualified, or removed by DSI in the circumstances set out in clauses 9.3 (Ethical Conduct / Reputation) and 9.4 (Sanctions).
The Honor Wall is a one-time point-in-time snapshot of all Founding Mission Supporters who were current Mission Members of DSI at the Snapshot Date. It is a permanent historical record of the Founding cohort at the moment the founding window closed. The Honor Wall is not updated after the Snapshot Date. Mission Members who joined before the Snapshot Date but ceased to be current Mission Members before that date do not appear on the snapshot; Mission Supporters whose Effective Date is after the Snapshot Date cannot appear on it.
If you cease to be a current Mission Member for any reason, your badge under clause 6.2 lapses and your name comes off the Mission Supporter Wall on the same date. Your inclusion in the Honor Wall snapshot, where applicable, is a historical record and is unaffected by the subsequent ending of your Mission Membership status. If you later rejoin the Mission Membership Program, you rejoin as a Mission Supporter with the Mission Supporter badge under clause 6.2(b); you do not regain the Founding designation, irrespective of whether you appeared on the Honor Wall snapshot.
The Snapshot Date is a published, fixed deadline. No extensions are granted under any circumstances.
The Founding designation, the Mission Supporter designation, the Mission Supporter Wall listing, and the Honor Wall snapshot listing each constitute a recognition right only. None of them confers any governance role, voting rights, commercial exclusivity, or veto over any DSI relationship, decision, or appointment.
Where clause 9.3 or 9.4 applies, your Mission Membership status may end under clause 4.4, with the consequences set out in clause 6.4. The Honor Wall snapshot is a historical record and is not amended in the ordinary course. Where a matter of the kind described in clauses 9.3 or 9.4 comes to light after the Snapshot Date in respect of an organization that appeared on the snapshot, DSI may, at its sole discretion, publish a separate corrective notice; DSI does not modify the snapshot itself.
DSI grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license during the term of your Mission Membership status to use the DSI name, logo, and the Mission Supporter badge (Founding or standard as applicable) solely to identify your organization as a Mission Supporter in the Mission Membership Program and to communicate your support of the DSI mission, in accordance with DSI’s brand guidelines. The Commercial Use License for SMB1001 itself is separately granted under clause 5.2.
You grant DSI a non-exclusive, non-transferable, royalty-free license during the term of your Mission Membership status to use your organization’s name and logo for the purpose of recognizing you under clause 6 and including you on the Mission Supporter Wall, in the Honor Wall snapshot (where applicable), and in DSI publications.
Neither party may imply any product endorsement, commercial preference, or governance influence by reference to the other’s name or logo. In particular, you must not use the DSI name or logo in any way that suggests DSI endorses, prefers, recommends, or has approved any of your products, services, or commercial offers.
On termination of Mission Membership status, you must immediately cease use of the DSI name, logo, and Mission Supporter badge in any current and forward-looking materials. You may continue to refer factually to your historical Mission Membership status in the Mission Membership Program for the period you were a Mission Supporter.
The SMB1001 Mission Supporter preview made available from 1 September each year, and any other DSI materials marked as confidential or made available to Mission Supporters ahead of public release, are confidential until publicly released. You may use them within your organization to prepare for the annual update; you may not disclose them externally or use them for any other purpose until DSI has released them publicly.
You shall apply a reasonable standard of care to the storage, transmission, and access of confidential DSI materials, and inform DSI promptly if you become aware of any unauthorized disclosure.
This clause survives termination of your Mission Membership status.
When you join the Mission Membership Program, you acknowledge and agree to the following, which together describe DSI’s structural posture and the boundaries of the Mission Supporter relationship.
Your Mission Membership status does not confer any influence over the content, scope, structure, or interpretation of SMB1001. The standard is governed by SC1001 under SCOB oversight, and remains insulated from funding considerations under DSI’s governance design.
Your Mission Membership status does not confer any commercial exclusivity over any project, region, sector, or beneficiary community. DSI may admit additional Mission Supporters including direct or indirect competitors of yours, on the same or similar terms during or after your Mission Membership status.
Where your conduct after the Effective Date makes continued public recognition by DSI incompatible with the mission, whether because you are convicted of, or subject to any regulatory investigation in respect of, fraud, bribery, corruption, a breach of sanctions laws, modern slavery, or a comparable serious criminal offense, the DSI Board may, at its sole discretion and on written notice, withhold further recognition, qualify existing recognition, or cease referencing you in DSI’s forward-looking publications and communications. Annual Contributions paid to date are retained by DSI and applied to DSI’s charitable purposes. Recognition recorded in publications already published is not retracted; what is withdrawn is forward-looking recognition only. Treatment of the Honor Wall snapshot is governed by clause 6.7.
You represent and warrant that: (a) you are not, and are not owned or controlled by, a person or entity designated on the DFAT Consolidated List, the UN Security Council Consolidated Sanctions List, the OFAC SDN List, the EU Consolidated Financial Sanctions List, or the UK OFSI Sanctions List, in each case as in force from time to time; (b) you are not domiciled in, or controlled from, a comprehensively-sanctioned jurisdiction; (c) these warranties continue to be true during your Mission Membership status; (d) you will notify DSI promptly on becoming aware of any circumstance that would render any of the above warranties untrue; and (e) on breach of this warranty, DSI may end your Mission Membership status and exercise any other rights available to it (including under clause 9.3).
Each party complies with all anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws applicable to it, including the Australian Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth) Division 70 (foreign bribery), the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 1977, the United Kingdom Bribery Act 2010, and any equivalent law applicable in your jurisdiction of incorporation, residence, or operation. Neither party shall, in the performance of these Terms, directly or indirectly offer, promise, give, or authorize any payment or thing of value to any person to influence official action or secure improper advantage.
DSI may amend these Terms from time to time. Material amendments, including any change to the Tier and Annual Contribution structure, the Mission Supporter Benefits (including the Commercial Use License), or the acknowledgements in clause 9, will be notified to Mission Supporters in writing not less than 30 days before they take effect.
Where you do not wish to continue under amended Terms, you may end your Mission Membership status under clause 4.3, effective from the date the amendments would otherwise take effect. The Annual Contribution paid for the then-current Term is not refunded.
Non-material amendments, drafting clarifications, factual updates, and references to other DSI policies, take effect on publication and are notified in the next Mission Supporter communication.
The version of these Terms current at any given time is published at mission.dsi.org/supporter/terms. The version you accepted at sign-up is recorded in your Mission Member record.
DSI collects only the minimum information necessary to administer your Mission Membership status and meet DSI’s ACNC reporting and record-keeping obligations. The information collected is limited to your organization’s name, a contact email address, your Tier, and your Annual Contribution amount. DSI does not seek or retain personal information beyond what is strictly required for these purposes.
DSI’s handling of personal information is governed by DSI’s Privacy Policy, available at dsi.org/privacy.
Each party complies with the privacy and data-protection laws applicable to it in the performance of these Terms, including (where applicable) the Australian Privacy Act 1988, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679), the UK General Data Protection Regulation, the United Kingdom Data Protection Act 2018, and any other equivalent law in your jurisdiction. Where the Application Form or any communication under these Terms includes personal data of individuals located in the EU, the UK, or another jurisdiction with a comprehensive data-protection regime, the parties shall co-operate to identify any additional safeguards required for the lawful processing of that personal data.
You consent to DSI listing your organization’s name on the public Mission Supporter Wall and (where applicable under clause 6.3) in the Honor Wall snapshot, and naming your organization in the Annual Impact Report. If you require anonymity, please contact supporters@dsi.org before submitting your application; DSI will agree a tailored arrangement in good faith.
A “Force Majeure Event” means any event or circumstance beyond the reasonable control of the party affected that prevents, hinders, or delays that party from performing any of its obligations under these Terms, including acts of war, civil disorder, terrorism, natural disaster, pandemic or public-health emergency declared by a competent authority, regulatory action or sanctions imposition not directed at the affected party as a result of its own conduct, or sustained failure of third-party infrastructure. A Force Majeure Event does not include general economic or business hardship or any circumstance the affected party could reasonably have foreseen and avoided or insured against. Neither party is liable for any failure or delay in the performance of any non-monetary obligation to the extent caused by a Force Majeure Event. The affected party’s time for performance is extended for the duration of the Force Majeure Event and a reasonable recovery period thereafter.
Payment of the Annual Contribution under clauses 3 and 4 is not excused by a Force Majeure Event unless the inability to pay is itself directly caused by the Force Majeure Event (for example, banking-system failure, payment-system sanctions, or government-imposed currency-transfer restrictions affecting you).
The affected party shall notify the other party in writing as soon as reasonably practicable after becoming aware that a Force Majeure Event is likely to affect performance, with the nature of the event, the obligations affected, and the steps proposed to mitigate. The affected party shall use reasonable endeavors to resume performance as soon as reasonably practicable. If a Force Majeure Event continues for more than six (6) months and materially affects either party’s ability to perform its substantive obligations, either party may, by written notice, end the Mission Membership status under clause 4. This clause does not limit clause 9 (Acknowledgements) or clause 4 (Term and ending).
These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Queensland and the Commonwealth of Australia.
Any dispute is first referred for good-faith negotiation between authorized representatives of you and DSI for not less than 30 days.
The parties submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Queensland and the Federal Court of Australia.
You may not assign or transfer your rights or obligations under these Terms without DSI’s prior written consent. DSI may assign these Terms to a successor entity that maintains DSI’s ACNC registration and charitable purposes.
Notices to DSI may be sent to supporters@dsi.org. Notices to you will be sent to the email address you nominated in your Application Form. Email notices are deemed received on the next business day in the recipient’s jurisdiction.
These Terms are in English. Where DSI provides a translation for convenience, the English version prevails in the event of inconsistency.
If any provision of these Terms is or becomes invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions continue in force. These Terms, together with your Application Form and DSI’s Privacy Policy, form the entire agreement between you and DSI in respect of your Mission Membership status.
DSI’s aggregate liability arising from or in connection with these Terms will be limited to an amount equal to the Annual Contribution paid by you for the 12-month period in which the event giving rise to liability occurred.
Version 1.0 · Effective 1 July 2026· Published at mission.dsi.org/supporter/terms
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