This repository contains the organizational authority documents for Open Operational State — a vendor-neutral effort to standardize machine-readable operational state for web services.
| Document | Purpose |
|---|---|
| CHARTER.md | Initiative charter — mission, scope, and organizational identity |
| GOVERNANCE.md | Decision-making model, roles, and authority |
| SCOPE.md | v1 scope definition and scope expansion policy |
| PRINCIPLES.md | Design philosophy, neutrality, and extensibility |
| GLOSSARY.md | Controlled terminology definitions |
| ROADMAP.md | Phased roadmap |
| STEWARDSHIP.md | Stewardship and maintainer model |
| decisions/ | Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) |
| Repository | Purpose |
|---|---|
| status-spec | Technical specification |
| status-conformance | Conformance definitions, fixtures, and test taxonomy |
| status-tooling-js | Vendor-neutral reference tooling (JavaScript) |
See PROJECT_RULES.md for repo-specific constraints and the org-wide rules for shared constraints.