Major
Breaking semantic or verification change.
Evidence ceiling E3Proof boundary
Finality Reality Protocol
One protocol family. Explicit component status.
FRP 1.0 is the controlling public protocol release.
Current hierarchy
Normative, supporting and profile surfaces.
A component label never becomes a second governing protocol.
- CURRENT NORMATIVE
- Finality Reality Protocol 1.0 · Outcome Contract · Finality Outcome Certificate · deterministic classifications
- CURRENT SUPPORTING
- Receipt · offline Verifier · REOPEN / Supersession · Witness interface · Sentinel interface
- CURRENT PROFILE
- FBOP 1.0 · buyer-hidden commit/reveal and non-overridable STOP
- REFERENCE
- Industry workflows, adapters and simulated institutional witnesses
- LEGACY COMPATIBILITY
- outcome-finality.v2.0.0 and receipt.reference.v1 may be parsed only where explicitly identified
- SUPERSEDED
- The former Global Finality Standard public hierarchy is superseded by FRP 1.0 and redirects here or to the current specification
Negotiation
Reject ambiguity.
Implementations MUST identify protocol family, major version, schema version and profile version. Unsupported major versions fail closed; deprecated identifiers never silently upgrade.
Minor
Backward-compatible extension with explicit capability negotiation.
Schema
Object-specific validation version bound into the artifact.
Profile
Additional constraints such as blind outcome testing.
Deprecation
Published replacement, redirect or intentional removal.
History
Prior-art and invention chronology remain internal; current public truth remains singular.