Responsibility Infrastructure Standard.
The Responsibility Infrastructure Standard sets out published technical requirements for representing, evidencing and verifying responsibility. Each publication identifies its own scope, version and status.
This page preserves a substantive public view of the Standard's scope, structure, representative requirements and issued standard identifiers. Each identified publication's status, scope, version and licence or permitted-use terms govern its use.
A broader architecture for provable responsibility.
The issued RI publications describe technical conditions for representing, evidencing, verifying, recognising, resolving and relying upon responsibility across boundaries.
The architecture is domain-neutral. Its public description is intended to remain useful across industries while keeping internal implementation choices separate from the requirements that must be shared for interoperability.
From an operational gap to testable requirements.
The Operational Responsibility Gap describes the inability to reconstruct who held responsibility for the next required action in a specific event. Existing RI material documents one approach, subject to independent technical scrutiny.
Operational Responsibility Gap →Conformance remains a bounded claim.
Any implementation claiming conformance with an identified RI publication must state the applicable role, scope and version and satisfy the requirements that publication makes applicable.
Public availability, technical similarity or compatibility with the interoperability layer does not by itself establish broader RIS conformance, Recognition, Registry standing or authority for external reliance.
Existing RI documents address different functions.
The RI Standard addresses responsibility requirements; the Protocol describes related record and exchange functions. Shared interoperability requirements must be available to independent implementers within their applicable scope.
Responsibility Infrastructure Protocol →Interoperate through a separately defined public boundary.
Published research examines responsibility information and exchange questions that arise between independent systems and organisations.
Supporting schemas, reference code, validators, fixtures and conformance tests are governed by their own publication status and terms. Internal implementation details that are not part of an applicable public specification remain outside an interoperability conformance claim.
Issued standards
Issued RI-STD publications remain available as part of the public institutional record. Their identifier, status and any document-specific licence govern their use.
- RI-STD-01The Responsibility ChainPublished (Current Version)
- RI-STD-02Responsibility Evidence RequirementsPublished (Current Version)
- RI-STD-03Responsibility Verification RequirementsPublished (Current Version)