GLOBAL-FINALITY-STANDARD · v1.0.0
Global Finality Standard
Building an implementable public contract for post-action truth, finality, and evidence-qualified economic certainty across agentic and real-world consequential actions.
Compatibility & deprecation
External protocols evolve. Constitutional Finality remains explicit.
GFS uses semantic versioning, durable identifiers, explicit major-version extension URIs for breaking changes, and fail-closed version negotiation.
- PATCH
- Editorial or clarification change that preserves conformance.
- MINOR
- Backward-compatible additive normative capability.
- MAJOR
- Breaking normative change.
- Stable identifiers
- Published identifiers MUST NOT be silently reused for incompatible semantics.
- VC baseline
- W3C_VC_2_0; Explicit version adapter required; unsupported versions fail closed.
Normative truth boundary
Cryptographic verification is not the same as truth.
The Global Finality Standard is a public-safe contract specification. Conformance to a schema or profile is an internal, self-declared statement unless independently assessed. Nothing in this standard implies certification, partnership, endorsement, live integration, buyer acceptance, regulatory approval, or production deployment by any referenced protocol, network, vendor, or standards body.
- E0
- Concept or specification
- E1
- Implemented component
- E2
- Internally verified
- E3
- Integrated internal demonstration
- E3+
- E3 plus institutional-conversion controls and reproducibility
- E4
- Buyer-controlled environment validation
- E5
- Qualified independent external assurance
- E6
- Sustained production or market evidence
- Internal ceiling
- E3+ — Verifier fixtures, schema validation, and profile conformance in this package are internal controlled evidence at E3/E3+ only.
- E4
- Buyer-controlled environment validation is PENDING and cannot be self-declared.
- E5
- Qualified independent external assurance is PENDING and cannot be self-declared.
- E6
- Sustained production or market evidence is PENDING and cannot be self-declared.