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Record · Verification · Recognition · Standing

Current position

Responsibility Infrastructure is an architecture for making responsibility explicit, provable and usable across organisational and system boundaries. The Responsibility Infrastructure Standard and Responsibility Infrastructure Protocol address the wider normative and protocol architecture. A separately defined proposed public interoperability layer consists of the Responsibility Interoperability Standard and Responsibility Interoperability Protocol, which define the minimum common semantics and exchange requirements needed for independent systems to interoperate without adopting a common vendor stack. Each publication states its own status, scope and applicable licence or permitted-use terms. Products, open-source projects, vendor protocols and sector-specific systems may implement an applicable public interoperability specification without becoming the normative source for Responsibility Infrastructure, establishing conformance, creating Recognition, conferring Registry standing or supplying authority for external reliance.

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RI-REG · Registry

Responsibility Infrastructure Registry.

The Registry preserves and publishes recognised standing and its history.

Function

Recognition determines the effect of a verified responsibility record within the applicable recognition framework. The Registry preserves and publishes the resulting standing and the material history needed to interpret it.

Standing

Registry records distinguish current standing from historical determinations. A relying party can therefore determine what standing applies now without losing the history from which that standing arose.

Resolution

Resolution identifies the current standing relevant to a particular subject, responsibility, scope and reliance request. The relying party then applies its own decision policy.

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