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Compatible clarification
Clarifies draft text without silently changing an existing artifact’s meaning.
Governance · Draft 0.1
Open contribution with coherent release authority.
During the 0.x series, Alexander Pichugin is the initial standard steward. The model is intentionally decisive while terminology, schemas and conformance semantics are established through implementation.
Initial stewardship
Coherence first. Broader governance after independent adoption exists.
The steward accepts and rejects proposals, maintains terminology and canonical identifiers, publishes immutable versions, protects compatibility and separates reference-implementation behaviour from normative requirements.
A technical steering group becomes appropriate when independent implementations and regular external contributors exist.
A feature does not become standard merely because the private Answerworthy Engine implements it.
Answerworthy Proposals
Material changes leave a public rationale.
A proposal should demonstrate repeated implementation, independent consumption, an interoperability failure or a safety and compatibility need. Feature-count theatre is not an acceptance criterion.
- Proposal number and title
- Author and status
- Problem statement
- Normative change
- Schema and conformance impact
- Security and privacy impact
- Migration path
- Alternatives considered
- Reference implementation evidence
draftreviewacceptedrejectedwithdrawnimplementedsupersededRelease discipline
Published schemas are immutable. Corrections receive a new version.
MINOR
Compatible capability
Adds optional fields, profiles or constraints with an explicit migration path.
MAJOR
Semantic break
Changes required fields or meanings and requires explicit migration.
Current release
0.1.0-draft.1 is a public draft with a working reference implementation.
Stable 1.0 is reserved for an artifact contract exercised by the reference engine and at least one independent implementation or consumer.