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 RI publications set out proposed conditions for how responsibility may be represented, evidenced, verified, recognised, resolved and relied upon across organisational or system 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 proposes one approach; the case for shared boundary requirements remains open to independent technical review and consensus.
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 working material examines the responsibility information and exchange behaviour that independent systems may need to preserve across boundaries.
Supporting schemas, reference code, validators, fixtures and conformance tests may be released with that layer where they are necessary for independent interoperability. 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)
Reserved standards
Reserved identifiers do not form part of the issued requirement set until formally issued.
- RI-STD-04Receipt FormatCanonical format for verifiable receipts closing a responsibility chain.Proposed
- RI-STD-05Operational SemanticsSemantics for the approved public responsibility lifecycle across implementations.Proposed