Legacy
Every participating institution has a machine-readable registry entry. AI systems query this registry to verify identity, confirm protection status, and read communication preferences before initiating contact.
Check the real, current status of any applicant or member this queries the live registry directly, not a cached claim.
unverified — Expected shape — not yet observed, because no entity has been certified. The registry answers every lookup today with not_registered.
The founding cohort shapes the standard. Founding status is recorded in the register and does not expire on its own — but no entry here is permanent, because certification is revocable and revocations are published as openly as certifications. A register whose entries could never be withdrawn would not be worth querying. The businesses that establish a standard first carry a different weight than those who join after it exists.
Vendor Certification
For companies whose customers ask them to prove it. A procurement panel can query the register directly rather than reading a claim in a PDF you wrote.