Stewardship, publication authority, and version discipline of the Trust-State Standard.
The Trust-State Standard is stewarded and published exclusively by VTI Foundation, Inc. The Foundation maintains authority over normative text, annex designation, version identifiers, and official publication records.
Only releases published under the authority of VTI Foundation, Inc. constitute official versions of the Trust-State Standard.
Each official release of the Trust-State Standard includes:
Published versions are immutable. Corrections or amendments require issuance of a new version. Prior versions are archived and are not modified retroactively.
The authoritative form of the Trust-State Standard is the canonical PDF release published under the Releases archive.
Each canonical release is accompanied by a published SHA-256 cryptographic hash. The hash value verifies the integrity of the released artifact and ensures that any modification to the file results in a detectable change.
The canonical PDF, as identified by its published SHA-256 hash, constitutes the authoritative version of the Standard.
The Trust-State Standard contains both normative and informative material. Normative text defines mandatory requirements. Informative text provides clarification and explanatory context.
The normative governance provisions are defined in Section 8 of the Trust-State Standard v1.1.
Conformance claims must reference a specific published version of the Trust-State Standard. Claims made without version reference are invalid.
Conformance is version-bound and must be evaluated under the requirements defined in the referenced release.
The Trust-State Standard may be extended by companion frameworks or applied specifications. Such frameworks are published separately and do not modify the normative core unless explicitly incorporated by formal version increment.
Framework publications do not alter or supersede the canonical Trust-State Standard unless designated by official release.