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@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 | 6 | Portability | exFAT/NTFS and Windows are the **common** case. Case folding and Unicode normalization become correctness requirements, not compatibility notes | E8 / decision 12 |
 | 7 | Accounts | Native registration is **hybrid**: passphrase-derived `auth_key` (the recovery path) plus a device Ed25519 key for day-to-day authentication | E3 / decision 4 |
 | 8 | Authorship | Chat senders are **cryptographically authenticated to each other**; an upload has a **provable owner** who may delete it, as the operator may. v5's node-asserted attribution is replaced | operator decision, §2.4b |
-| 9 | Node authority | The operator may **close uploading to everyone but themselves**, per group. Signed MNP op, stored on the node, enforced by the node — the hidden button is a courtesy, the refusal is the control | §2.1b |
+| 9 | Node authority | The operator decides **which directories accept uploads**, per root. Signed MNP op, stored on the node, enforced by the node — the hidden button is a courtesy, the refusal is the control. **Superseded 2026-09-06** by `docs/refactor-groups.md` §1.1: the group-wide `member_upload` switch this section described is replaced by RO/RW per root, and the "everyone but the operator" carve-out is gone | §2.1b |
 | 10 | Client | A group's UI is a **set of pluggable applications** (Chat, Files today), not one monolithic page. Which are shown is a per-group, operator-signed setting on the same pattern as change 9 | §2.7 |
 | 11 | Hub role | The hub gains a **runtime instance-policy store** (`hub_settings`). First policy: an admin switches **public groups off** hub-wide, enforced server-side on every hub-mediated path. `suspend` vs `revoke` on a group are now written down as the distinct things they are | §2.8 |
 | 12 | Group registry | A group name is **unique per owner account**, not globally; the group's identity is still its UUID. Listed everywhere as `name@owner` | §2.9 |
@@ -74,10 +74,22 @@
 v5 confines uploads to `shared_root/uploads/` with a filename allowlist, no overwrite,
 chunk ordering and a size cap. All four protections stand. Two amendments:
 
-- There is no single `shared_root`. **The operator designates one root as the upload
-  destination**; the quarantine lives inside it. If that root is unavailable the upload
-  fails with a stated reason and never falls back to another; if none is designated,
-  uploads are refused rather than guessed.
+- There is no single `shared_root`. **Each root is read-only or read-write**, and an
+  upload goes to the folder the sender is looking at, inside a writable root. If that
+  root is unavailable the upload fails with a stated reason and never falls back to
+  another; if the group has no writable root, uploads are refused rather than guessed.
+  (Amended 2026-09-06 — the original text designated *one* root as the upload
+  destination, and the client named none. See `docs/refactor-groups.md` §1.1.)
+- **There is no `uploads/` quarantine directory any more** (2026-09-06). It was the
+  last of v5's, the per-user layer having gone on 2026-08-14, and it went for the same
+  reason: a folder appearing beside the operator's library because somebody sent a
+  file is the node deciding how their disk is arranged. **What made the quarantine
+  worth having was never the subdirectory** — it is the filename allowlist, the size
+  cap, the chunk ordering and the no-overwrite rule, and all four are unchanged.
+  The client now names the destination folder, which is safe for one reason and only
+  one: it is resolved through `RootSet.resolve()`, which refuses `..`, absolute
+  segments and anything escaping its root, symlinks included. A member answers "which
+  of this group's folders", never "which path on the operator's disk".
 - **The no-overwrite rule is unchanged and still holds on exFAT/NTFS.** An earlier
   draft claimed a string comparison let `README.TXT` land on `readme.txt` there. It does
   not: the check is `Path.exists()`, and `stat()` is itself case-insensitive on those
@@ -91,6 +103,31 @@ device that asked, so the node keeps no thumbnail store.
 
 ### 2.1b §5.2 Uploads — the operator may close them
 
+> **Superseded 2026-09-06.** `member_upload` is gone; the mechanism is `writable` on
+> each root. What the three load-bearing properties below say is *unchanged* — read
+> "the root's `writable` flag" for "`member_upload`" and every word of them still
+> holds, which is why they are kept rather than deleted. What did change:
+>
+> - **It is per root, not per group.** A group can publish one library read-only and
+>   accept uploads into another, which the single switch could not express.
+> - **There is no carve-out for the operator.** Read-only means read-only for
+>   everyone, because a published library that quietly accepts writes from whoever
+>   holds admin authority is not one. The paragraph below justifying the setting by
+>   "the only way to get a curated library was to designate no upload root at all,
+>   which refuses the operator too" is therefore the reasoning that was reversed: that
+>   *is* the model now, and refusing the operator is the point rather than the defect.
+> - **The client names the destination root.** With several writable roots the node
+>   cannot choose without guessing, and a guess sends a member's file to a disk the
+>   operator did not intend. It names a root, never a path; everything below the root
+>   is still decided by the node.
+> - The signed op is `OP_ROOT_UPDATE` (plus `OP_ROOT_EJECT` / `OP_ROOT_PLUG`) rather
+>   than `OP_MEMBER_UPLOAD`, and the flags live in `node.toml` — they are
+>   configuration — while the *ejected* runtime state lives in `roster.db`.
+>   `member_upload` survives on the handshake ack alone, computed as "any root is
+>   writable", for MNP 1.0 clients that read no other field.
+>
+> See `docs/refactor-groups.md` §1.1 and §1.5b.
+
 New. A group where every member may add files is the default and stays the default;
 some groups want a library the operator curates, and until now the only way to get one
 was to designate no upload root at all, which refuses the operator too.