Authority boundary

What RuleMark publishes—and what it does not decide.

RuleMark assigns canonical identities to frozen standards, preserves their normative artifacts, and publishes matching human and machine records. It is not a regulator, court, certification body, legal adviser or implementation consultant.

Publishing authority

RuleMark may author and publish standards under its own canonical ID namespace. Publication records identity, version, status and integrity evidence; it does not guarantee regulatory acceptance or suitability for a particular use.

A frozen version cannot be rewritten in place. A normative content change requires a new version. Previous versions remain resolvable.

Interpretive boundary

RuleMark explains its publication procedure and registry semantics. It does not issue legal, financial, regulatory or compliance advice, and registry presence is not an endorsement of an organization, asset or implementation.

Independent professional review remains necessary wherever law, regulation, investment or operational risk is involved.

Publishing procedure

  1. 01

    Assign

    Assign a unique RM-S-* canonical ID and version.

  2. 02

    Freeze

    Preserve the normative artifact and calculate integrity metadata.

  3. 03

    Register

    Publish one matching canonical and machine record.

  4. 04

    Verify

    Resolve the ID, hash, page and download to the same artifact.

Fixed terminology

Canonical Standards Registry

The current index of registered RuleMark standards and their status.

Canonical Record

The stable identity and metadata assigned to one frozen standard version.

Normative Artifact

The original frozen PDF bytes to which a canonical record refers.

Machine Record

Structured JSON derived from a canonical record for software and AI systems.

Canonical Archive

Historical versions, status transitions and preserved integrity evidence.

Standard statuses

FROZEN

Registered and immutable at the stated version.

SUPERSEDED

Preserved, with a later version designated as its replacement.

WITHDRAWN

Preserved for history but no longer designated for current use.

DRAFT is an unpublished working state and does not appear in the Canonical Standards Registry. Deprecated is reserved for software interfaces; revoked is reserved for credentials or authorizations.