Canonical Source Standards Register

1. Purpose & Authority

Source-text discipline. This Register lists the source standards the CIAO Standard recognises and maps to; it does not host, reproduce, or distribute the text of any listed standard. All CIAO mappings are expressed as clause references only — members consult their own authorised copies of each source standard for the clause text. CIAO provides the architectural layer above these standards, harmonising their requirements through clause-reference-only mappings, never a substitute for the standards themselves.

The Canonical Source Standards Register is the authoritative scope of normative reference for the CIAO Standard. It defines which source standards CIAO documents may engage. Amendments to CIAO content may engage only standards in this Register; proposals engaging unregistered standards are escalated as Register Addition Requests under the Change Management & Versioning Process.

The Register is an instrument of foundational governance — Class B in the Constitutional hierarchy declared in Constitution Section 7. Its authority arises from the role it plays: every entry in the Register represents the application of the patented multi-framework mapping methodology to that source standard, producing a normalized cross-mapping against the entire CIAO Standard content. A standard not yet in the Register has not yet been compiled into the CIAO mapping fabric; it cannot serve as a normative reference until that compilation is performed.

Each entry below names a source standard the CIAO Standard cites in its mappings. Each entry carries a short code used in inline references; a family classification used to group standards by tradition; the issuing authority; and the primary CAO content domain into which the standard most closely maps. Where a standard genuinely spans two CAO domains, both are listed.

Members configure their applicable source-standards portfolio at the My Source Standards page (login required). Once configured, the Dynamic Selection Engine filters the Standard’s inline references to the member’s selected portfolio. The Register’s authority over what may be referenced is independent of any individual member’s portfolio configuration; portfolio configuration is presentational, the Register’s authority is normative.

2. The Register

Thirty-four source standards are currently in the Register, organised across nine families. Additions follow the source-standard re-issue trigger pathway in the Change Management & Versioning Process.

3. Family Coverage

4. Maintenance, Expansion & Retirement

The Register is kept current under the Standards Upkeep Process, which governs the full lifecycle of every entry — monitoring for revision, onboarding of new standards, version transitions, and retirement of superseded standards. In summary: a referenced standard revised by its issuing body is handled as a source-standard re-issue; a proposal engaging a standard not yet in the Register is a Register Addition Request; and a withdrawn or superseded standard is retired with its mappings reattributed, archived, or routed for editorial resolution. Each pathway is executed through the Change Management & Versioning Process and produces entries in the Release Calendar pipeline as Material changes. Register expansion is additive — adding an entry never affects a member’s existing mappings against previously-registered standards.

Part of the CIAO Standard architecture — see Standard Architecture & Tier Content Depth for the canonical domain spine and tier-by-tier content ladder.