Standards Council · Seats & Handover List
Those who set the standard (Standards Council), those who fund the work (Oversight Committee), and those who run it (Secretariat) must be three different groups of people. The moment any two overlap, neutrality collapses — this is the exact clause the charter uses to exclude ITAD disposers and exchanges, and it binds the initiator just as hard.
01 · Three-layer separation
| Layer | Role | Voting | Where the initiator sits |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spec Council | Technical decisions: RFC review & voting, spec releases, dispute adjudication | yes (7 seats) | At most 1 seat, must recuse on own-interest matters |
| Steering Committee | Stakeholders (supply / demand / finance / disposal) raise needs, ask questions, fund the work | no | The initiator sits here: may propose and fund, but no technical vote |
| Secretariat | Registry ops, API, docs, community; executes council decisions | no | Initiator runs it (operational authority, not rule ownership) |
02 · Seats (7, all vacant)
| # | Seat | Why it must exist | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cryptography / distributed-systems scholar phase 1 priority | The source of technical credibility nobody can dispute. | vacant |
| 2 | Standards & metadata practitioner phase 1 priority | Hands-on ISO / IETF / W3C experience, to put CVIN on the standardization path. | vacant |
| 3 | Compute supply side | Data-center / cloud operators — the ones who write into the registry. | vacant |
| 4 | Compute demand side | AI training / inference buyers — the ones who query the resolver. | vacant |
| 5 | Asset-finance side | Insurance / lending / securitization — the people who put CVIN into contracts and policies. | vacant |
| 6 | ITAD / secondary-market side | Device disposal and residual-value appraisal — the last mile of the lifecycle. | vacant |
| 7 | Public-interest seat phase 1 priority | Open-standards bodies / academic libraries — proof to the world this is not an industry carve-up. | vacant |
03 · Thresholds & chair
Thresholds
Chair
The chair is neither appointed by the initiator nor answerable to them for re-election.
04 · Powers the initiator hands over
| What is given up | To whom | Initiator keeps | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical voting rights | The 7-seat Standards Council | Proposal rights only (max 1/7 seats) | handed over 2026-11-02 |
| The chair seat | Elected by members, 2-year term | None | handed over 2026-11-02 |
| Spec copyright & trademarks | Independent non-profit (phase 2, month 18–36) | First Registration Agent (RA) status | phase 2 pending |
| The right to amend the spec unilaterally | Public RFC + 2/3 vote | Proposal rights | handed over 2026-11-02 |
| A majority of council seats | Initiator capped at 1/7 in perpetuity | None | handed over 2026-11-02 |
Each item counts only when actually handed over. The cleaner the handover, the better the odds CVIN becomes a standard.
05 · Red-line self-check (6/6 pass)
Every line below carries a verdict and its evidence. Sources are repo files and on-chain records — not promises.
| Red line | Verdict | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| The initiator retains no veto, not even a nominal one | pass | RFC thresholds are 4/7 and 5/7 — both above the initiator's 1-seat cap; no single-veto mechanism exists anywhere. |
| Initiator may never hold a majority — hard-capped at 1/7 | pass | The initiator currently holds 0 seat(s) (hard cap 1/7, perpetual). Seats occupied: 0 of 7. |
| Seats cannot be bought | pass | Seats carry no consideration and no sponsorship tiers; the Steering Committee (the funders) explicitly holds no technical vote. |
| Comment periods may never be shorter than 14 days, never shortened or skipped | pass | 2 comment window(s) on record; shortest is 15 days. |
| Members must recuse on conflicts of interest, and recused votes leave the denominator | pass | Every RFC front matter must declare `interest` (conflict-of-interest statement); undeclared votes do not count. |
| No synthetic data without prominent disclosure | pass | Synthetic observations on chain: 451; flagged with synthetic:true: 451 (2.33%). The share is disclosed on /provenance and /v1/provenance — shortfalls are disclosed on the same pages. |
Machine-readable: GET /v1/governance/redlines · GET /v1/governance · GET /v1/rfcs
06 · Two precedents worth copying
VIN
ISO 3779 defines the format, ISO 3780 the allocation rules, SAE is the sole global WMI registry, and national agencies verify and file assignments.
DOI
The IDF governs the standard, regional RAs operate it, and a technical support agency underpins it.