Protocols

The formats this estate publishes

26 open formats for describing an organisation to a stranger — who it is, what it can do, what it has done, and whether any of that checks out. Each is a specification and, where it is published, a package you can install today.

15 are published; 5 are published by another property in this estate, which owns them; 6 are written and deliberately held back until somebody outside adopts one. That last group says why, because a format kept back on purpose and one somebody forgot look identical from a list and need opposite answers.

The record

What an organisation is, and what it has done.

The doorway

How a stranger, or their agent, arrives.

The work

Finding each other, agreeing, delivering.

Value

Positions, entitlements and instruments.

Operations

How an organisation runs, in public.