The Register
What is on the Register
Every Entry, Record, Practice Record and Condition Observation, at a permanent address, in plain text, hashed daily into a root published where we cannot reach it.
How something gets onto it
Four routes. Two are open now; two wait on version 1.0 entering force (§12.2).
Condition Observation
A dated record of the condition of work: what was observed, when, by what means. It states facts about the work and never a conclusion about a person. Filing is free and always will be. We publish Observations as filed and compute no score, rating, ranking or average from them (§16.4).
File one now · §16 →Open Filing
A Transmission recorded without our participation and at no charge. Map, Transmit and Prove, attested by the Master and the Successor and by two Filing Witnesses in place of an accredited Witness. No recording is required and no Deposit is held; the Record states “no deposit” and is marked openly filed.
Open now · §4.6Conformance trial
Transmissions conducted in full under the Standard before 1.0, to establish whether its requirements can be met in practice. Participation is free, carries no obligation to continue, and carries no charge at any later date.
Applications · §12.7Witnessed Transmission
The full route: Map, Transmit, Prove, Deposit, Record, with an accredited Witness under §8. Issues once 1.0 is in force. Until then only one demonstration Record may issue, and it carries that fact on its face permanently.
On 1.0 · §§4.2–4.4What an address means here
Every Entry and Record has a stable public address of the form /lineage/[number] and /record/[Record ID]. Those addresses are permanent. They are not changed, reassigned or redirected away once published, and an identifier is never reused for anything else (§3.8, §6.5).
Behind each address is a file, and the file is the record — plain text with its schema written inside it, readable in any text editor, parseable in about twenty lines of code, and legible without a database or any software of ours. Anything legible only through an application is a record with the lifespan of that application (§17.1).