Governance¶

Versioning promise (gate G4)¶

v0.x is a working draft; the wire format may change. v1.0 will freeze the Grant, Attestation, Decision Record, and Status List formats. Breaking changes before v1.0 are announced in the changelog; after v1.0 they require a major-version bump.

Licensing¶

Specification text is CC BY 4.0. Schemas, reference code, scripts, and site are Apache-2.0.

Decisions¶

Architectural decisions are recorded as ADRs under spec/adr/ (ADR-001 … ADR-009) and published in full under Decisions. The load-bearing ones: identity namespace root (001), grant authorization (004), external anchoring (005), evidence not enforcement (006), the signing curve (008), and revocation authority (009).

Authorship¶

H2A was authored by Kilbowie and is offered as a neutral, proposed open standard. Authorship does not privilege any implementation: the protocol names no operator, implementer, or vendor in its trust model, and stewardship is intended to pass to a neutral Foundation.

Neutrality¶

The standard is public from day one. The Foundation that will steward it is never in the runtime critical path; no required fetch during an act of use resolves under the Foundation's domain.