Responsibility Interoperability Standard.
The proposed public standard for preserving common responsibility meaning across independent organisational and system boundaries.
- Status
- Proposed
- Scope
- Common responsibility semantics
- Technology model
- Implementation-neutral
- Companion protocol
- Responsibility Interoperability Protocol
Standardise the meaning that must survive the boundary.
The Responsibility Interoperability Standard defines the minimum common semantics that independent parties need in order to exchange responsibility information without surrendering ownership of their internal systems or operating models.
It is concerned with externally relied-upon responsibility meaning, not with making every participating organisation operate the same internal process.
Keep the responsibility facts distinguishable.
- Identity
- The parties, organisations or systems participating in the responsibility exchange.
- Responsibility
- The specific responsibility being proposed, held, transferred or discharged.
- Scope
- The boundary, conditions and intended outcome to which the responsibility applies.
- Authority
- The source, holder, scope, limits and validity of the authority relied upon.
- Evidence
- Attributable proof supporting a responsibility event, claim or outcome.
- Outcome
- The result associated with the responsibility and the evidence supporting that result.
Interoperability without internal standardisation.
- Responsibility meaning must remain explicit when it crosses an organisational or system boundary.
- Identity, authority, evidence and responsibility must remain distinguishable concepts.
- Acceptance, rejection, transfer and other material responses must not be inferred where the applicable requirement calls for an explicit event.
- Material event history and provenance must remain reconstructable across exchange and later reconciliation.
- Interoperability conformance must identify the applicable publication, role, scope and version.
- Independent implementation must not require adoption of a common internal product, workflow engine or runtime architecture.
The semantic boundary must survive different operating conditions.
The public interoperability layer is intended to support online, intermittently connected, offline and air-gapped operation with later reconciliation. The same core responsibility meaning must remain reconstructable regardless of the transport or connection model used.
It is intended to support human-to-human, human-to-machine, machine-to-human and machine-to-machine exchange.
A public interoperability standard within a wider architecture.
The Responsibility Interoperability Standard defines the common semantic boundary for independent exchange. The Responsibility Infrastructure Standard addresses the wider normative architecture in which responsibility may be represented, evidenced, verified, recognised, resolved and relied upon.