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Responsibility Infrastructure™ is a La Touche-originated open constitutional framework for making responsibility explicit, attributable, evidenced and independently reconstructable across organisations and systems. It standardises the minimum meaning and record conditions required for responsibility to remain interpretable when work, authority or reliance crosses an organisational or system boundary.
Trade mark ownership is not the source of constitutional authority. Authority for any RI function must come from the applicable published governance instrument and the operational constitution of that function.
Responsibility Infrastructure standardises responsibility meaning and interoperability, not the internal technology used to implement it. A conforming implementation must preserve the required constitutional meaning and make the minimum Responsibility Record independently reconstructable and interpretable across a boundary.
Responsibility Infrastructure Foundation Limited exists as a separate incorporated company. That legal fact does not, by itself, prove that every function performed within the broader Responsibility Infrastructure architecture is independently governed. Independence must be constituted and evidenced through governance arrangements, appointments, procedures, recusal, separation of powers and the authority of the relevant institution.
Responsibility Infrastructure is a La Touche-originated open constitutional framework for making responsibility explicit, attributable, evidenced and independently reconstructable across organisations and systems.
Responsibility Infrastructure Foundation Limited, company number 17410628, incorporated in 2026 as a private company limited by guarantee without share capital, is the institutional home for public-interest stewardship, participation, consultation and long-term framework governance functions assigned to it.
No. Responsibility Infrastructure does not require a La Touche API, JSON, XML, cryptographic signatures, blockchain, distributed ledgers, immutable databases, a particular database, storage technology, software stack or independent registrar model. Conformance depends on preserving constitutional meaning and the minimum Responsibility Record across a boundary.
Not yet. The current public position is that independent implementation testing has not yet been completed and cross-system interoperability has not yet been demonstrated.
La Touche Academy Ltd publishes the current Responsibility Infrastructure publication set. La Touche Infrastructure Ltd develops commercial implementation systems, infrastructure and services. La Touche Holdings Ltd owns and administers La Touche-held intellectual property and trade mark rights.
No general external Recognition authority or Registry intake process is currently operational unless a specific published programme expressly states otherwise.
Read the canonical definition and Protocol for the public framework requirements. For an organisational responsibility-gap assessment or commercial implementation enquiry, contact La Touche Infrastructure Ltd.
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