{
  "schemaVersion": "1.2",
  "id": "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/current-position.json",
  "name": "Responsibility Infrastructure",
  "abbreviation": "RI",
  "dateModified": "2026-09-10",
  "canonicalUrl": "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/",
  "currentStatusUrl": "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/current-status",
  "definitionUrl": "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/responsibility-infrastructure",
  "standardUrl": "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/standards",
  "protocolUrl": "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/protocol",
  "interoperabilityStandardUrl": "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/responsibility-interoperability-standard",
  "interoperabilityProtocolUrl": "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/responsibility-interoperability-protocol",
  "implementationUrl": "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/implementation",
  "description": "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.",
  "widerArchitecture": {
    "standard": "Responsibility Infrastructure Standard",
    "protocol": "Responsibility Infrastructure Protocol",
    "purpose": "Normative conditions and protocol-level relationships across the wider Responsibility Infrastructure architecture."
  },
  "publicInteroperabilityLayer": {
    "standard": "Responsibility Interoperability Standard",
    "protocol": "Responsibility Interoperability Protocol",
    "purpose": "Minimum common semantics, schemas, exchange rules, reference code, validators, fixtures and conformance tests necessary for independent interoperability when issued as part of an applicable public release.",
    "operatingConditions": [
      "online",
      "intermittently connected",
      "offline",
      "air-gapped with later reconciliation"
    ],
    "interactionDirections": [
      "human-to-human",
      "human-to-machine",
      "machine-to-human",
      "machine-to-machine"
    ]
  },
  "publicationBoundary": "Each public publication states its own status, scope and applicable licence or permitted-use terms. Internal implementation choices are outside a public conformance claim unless an identified public specification expressly makes them normative.",
  "positioning": "Responsibility Infrastructure is defined by its canonical publications, governance records, evidence and dated Current Status material. Third-party implementations do not become the normative source merely by implementing compatible behaviour.",
  "implementationBoundary": "Independent implementations may implement an applicable Responsibility Interoperability publication using their own internal technologies and architectures, subject to the requirements and licence or permitted-use terms attached to that publication.",
  "statusBoundary": "Published bounded interoperability evidence does not establish universal interoperability, full RI conformance, independent implementation conformance, certification, Recognition, Registry standing, regulatory approval or adoption by the named source systems. Consult Current Status and the evidence register for the latest verified position.",
  "openReference": "Anyone may accurately reference a named publication and version. Factual reference is not an official designation, endorsement or conformance claim, and any implementation rights are governed by the applicable publication terms.",
  "supersededPositioning": [
    "open category",
    "institutional operational category",
    "generic Responsibility Infrastructure category",
    "RI framework",
    "RI methodology",
    "consultancy offering",
    "Responsibility Interoperability Protocol replaces Responsibility Infrastructure Protocol",
    "all Responsibility Infrastructure specifications are openly implementable"
  ],
  "sourceHierarchy": [
    "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/current-status",
    "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/standards",
    "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/protocol",
    "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/responsibility-interoperability-standard",
    "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/responsibility-interoperability-protocol",
    "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/interop",
    "https://responsibilityinfrastructure.com/governance"
  ],
  "historicalRecordPolicy": "Preserve historical publication titles, identifiers, dates and versions. Do not treat superseded wording as the current description or silently rewrite historical records.",
  "scope": "This is a public positioning and source-reference record, not a normative specification, conformance certificate, transfer of intellectual property or claim of independent standards-body approval."
}