RI-007 · Working Draft
Responsibility Existence
When does responsibility actually exist?
R ⇔ (Allocation ∧ Agency ∧ Accountability)
Responsibility requires allocation, genuine agency, and accountability together.
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RI · La Touche-originated framework · 2026
Responsibility
Infrastructure®
Infrastructure for making responsibility provable.
Independent organisational reliance depends upon responsibility that can be demonstrated through trustworthy records, evidence, verification, recognition, and registry publication.
Responsibility Infrastructure® provides published requirements, records, evidence structures, verification, recognition, and registry mechanisms for creating trustworthy responsibility records across organisations and systems.
Current institutional position
Responsibility Infrastructure is an open framework for making responsibility provable across organisations and systems. Anyone may implement or reference the published specifications.
Official participation designations, mapping identifiers, assurance levels, and public programme listings are administered through La Touche. Independent verification, Recognition, and Registry publication remain separately governed where constitutionally required. General external programmes are not yet open unless a published programme states otherwise.
§ 1.0 — Definition
What is Responsibility Infrastructure?
Responsibility Infrastructure® is a La Touche-originated framework for making responsibility explicit, attributable, evidenced, independently verifiable, and capable of authoritative recognition and registry publication where separately constituted institutional conditions exist.
It exists because responsibility cannot be relied upon across organisational boundaries when it cannot be independently reconstructed and proved.
Independent organisations may implement or truthfully reference published requirements. Official participation, mapping identifiers, protected ecosystem designations, and assurance claims remain controlled programme surfaces administered through La Touche.
Constitutional Logic
Three constitutional questions.
These Working Drafts express the category logic in public, searchable form. They do not disclose implementation methods or establish independent approval.
RI-008 · Working Draft
Responsibility Integrity
How strong is an existing responsibility relationship?
Responsibility Integrity ∝ Agency ∝ Accountability
Integrity strengthens when authority and accountability increase together.
Read RI-008 →RI-009 · Working Draft
Responsibility Value
Why does Responsibility Infrastructure create value?
V = O + D + T
Value combines operational clarity, defensibility, and institutional trust.
Read RI-009 →§ 2.0 — Surfaces
Four institutional surfaces.
These surfaces describe the target constitutional architecture. Their present governance and operational status must be read separately and must not be inferred from the diagram alone.
RI-STD→
Standards
Published requirements defining the conditions under which responsibility records and claims may be assessed.
RI-REG→
Registry
The target public record of results produced by a valid Recognition process. General external intake is not open.
RI-RAIL→
Rail
Systems and services that support the creation and preservation of Responsibility Records in accordance with applicable requirements.
RI-GOV→
Governance
The current administration and target constitutional separation of publication, implementation, evaluation, Recognition, and Registry functions.
§ 3.0 — Published Lifecycle
The responsibility lifecycle.
The published lifecycle identifies constitutional stages and institutional outcomes. It does not disclose software workflows, event taxonomies, transition logic, evaluator methods, or operating architecture.
- STEP 01Capture
A responsibility event is identified, recorded, and scoped.
- STEP 02Assignment
Responsibility is allocated to an identified party.
- STEP 03Acceptance
The assigned party records acceptance of the responsibility.
- STEP 04Response State
The current response state and applicable conditions are recorded.
- STEP 05Action
Operational action is taken under the accepted responsibility.
- STEP 06Evidence
Material evidence of the action and outcome is preserved.
- STEP 07Verification
The evidence and claim are independently examined.
- STEP 08Recognition
An authorised decision determines whether the verified claim is recognised.
- STEP 09Registry
The recognised result and its standing are published authoritatively.
- STEP 10Receipt
A retrievable receipt states Registry standing at a defined point in time.
§ 4.0 — Internal Demonstration
First internal end-to-end demonstration chain.
These linked artefacts demonstrate that the proposed document and publication lifecycle can be executed within the current La Touche dogfood architecture.
They do not demonstrate independent constitutional verification, independently constituted Recognition, regulatory adoption, multi-party governance, or institutionally separated Registry operation.
- RI-001Public
Foundational Publication
Step 01 of the internal demonstration chain
- EP-0001Public
Internal Evidence Pack
Step 02 of the internal demonstration chain
- VR-0001Internal
Internal Mechanics Verification Report
Step 03 of the internal demonstration chain
- RD-0001Transitional
Transitional Founder Recognition Decision
Step 04 of the internal demonstration chain
- RE-0001Transitional
Transitional Registry Entry
Step 05 of the internal demonstration chain
- RR-0001Transitional
Transitional Receipt
Step 06 of the internal demonstration chain
The next constitutional proof milestone is an external pilot assessed by a sufficiently separated evaluator and processed through independently constituted Recognition and Registry arrangements.
§ 5.0 — Selected Publications
Selected publications.
“Published (Current Version)” means the current publisher-issued version within the La Touche publication set. It does not mean independently ratified, externally adopted, or available for recognised external conformance.
- RI-001Definition of the Responsibility Infrastructure CategoryPublished (Current Version) · Not independently ratified
- RI-STD-01The Responsibility ChainPublished (Current Version) · Not independently ratified
- RI-STD-02Responsibility Evidence RequirementsPublished (Current Version) · Not independently ratified
- RI-STD-03Responsibility Verification RequirementsPublished (Current Version) · Not independently ratified
- RI-GOV-01Responsibility Infrastructure Governance CharterDraft · Not independently ratified
Provable. Verifiable. Reconstructable.
Responsibility Infrastructure® · La Touche Holdings Ltd · 2026