Standards & Interoperability

Open technical material for authority and economic interoperability review

ENTITY v3.4.3 is an open-source runtime for persistent identity, delegated authority, rights, evidence, governed events, digital market state, economic participation, settlement evidence and provider-independent recovery. Standards work should therefore examine more than identity/provenance: the relevant interoperability surface also includes rights instruments, market execution and economic continuity.

Claim boundary: nothing in this section claims IETF, W3C, DIF, ISO, FIX, GAIA-X, IDS or any other standards-body approval, adoption, certification or conformance unless explicitly evidenced by that external body.

Core primitive model

ENTITY → AUTHORITY → RIGHT → EVENT → VALUE

The standards question is not whether ENTITY replaces existing identity, credential, policy, market or payment systems. The question is whether those systems can be connected while preserving explicit authority, rights, evidence and economic-state boundaries.

Interoperability surfaces

Identity & credentials

External credentials and identifiers may be trusted inputs without automatically becoming ENTITY authority.

Rights & policy

Policy/rights languages can map into explicit RIGHT semantics while retaining issuer, scope, constraints and non-equivalence boundaries.

Markets & finance

Rights instruments, venues, listings, orders, RFQs, trades, clearing and entitlements can interoperate with existing market/financial infrastructure while external payment remains a separate evidence domain.

Settlement & attestations

External payment rails or settlement systems can provide authorized evidence/attestations rather than being reimplemented inside ENTITY.

Data spaces

ENTITY can carry authority, rights, provenance, usage and recovery around data-space transactions instead of redefining complete data-space ecosystems.

Recovery & portability

Logical market/authority state should survive provider change without silent privilege expansion or semantic loss.

Market lifecycle for standards review

DCO → INSTRUMENT → LISTING → DISCLOSURE → ORDER / RFQ / AUCTION → TRADE → CLEARING → SETTLEMENT → ENTITLEMENT → USAGE → ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCE

This lifecycle is useful for mapping boundaries to existing rights languages, market protocols, settlement systems, provenance standards and data-space governance.

Current working draft

The existing pre-submission authority/provenance draft remains useful for the provider-neutral core. It should be read alongside the current market/economic architecture rather than as the complete product definition.

Read working draft → Read market fabric → Mapping matrix →

Useful review questions

Can an externally valid credential accidentally escalate into authority?
Can provenance be confused with ownership, truth or economic entitlement?
Can rights instruments preserve upstream licence/issuer constraints across transfer?
Can market execution remain distinct from verified external settlement?
Can recoverable market state preserve balances, entitlements and obligations without treating storage possession as authority?
Can independent implementations reproduce canonical decisions and fail-closed behavior?

External verification challenge →