Questions about the Nexus Standards

Short answers to the questions asked most about the Nexus Standards: what they are, how to cite them, the licences, how they relate to ISO, IEC and other bodies, versions, conformance and how to take part. Each answer links the page that holds the full text.

The standards Take part

The foundation and the catalogue

The 18 foundation standards and the citations between them; NS-1, cited by 12 foundation standards, in accent; around them, the 348 risk standards by series.Source: the Nexus Standards registry; the standard texts; the risk standards catalogue.

NS-0 cites NS-14, NS-1, NS-3, NS-9, NS-11, NS-3b, NS-13, NS-6, NS-7, NS-2, NS-4, NS-5, NS-16, NS-8, NS-10, NS-12, NS-15.
NS-1 cites NS-9, NS-3, NS-16, NS-13, NS-10, NS-11, NS-4, NS-3b, NS-5, NS-15, NS-6, NS-14, NS-2, NS-7, NS-8.
NS-2 cites NS-1, NS-3b, NS-5, NS-7.
NS-3 cites NS-1, NS-3b.
NS-3b cites NS-1, NS-3.
NS-4 cites NS-13, NS-1, NS-14, NS-2, NS-0, NS-7, NS-5.
NS-5 cites NS-3b.
NS-6 cites NS-1, NS-16.
NS-7 cites NS-1, NS-16.
NS-8 cites none.
NS-9 cites NS-1, NS-16, NS-11, NS-14, NS-3, NS-10, NS-13.
NS-10 cites NS-9, NS-11, NS-1, NS-4, NS-3, NS-13.
NS-11 cites NS-10, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-8, NS-9.
NS-12 cites NS-10, NS-11, NS-3b, NS-2, NS-9.
NS-13 cites NS-1, NS-2, NS-0.
NS-14 cites NS-9, NS-10, NS-11.
NS-15 cites NS-9, NS-10, NS-11, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-2, NS-13, NS-1, NS-12, NS-14.
NS-16 cites NS-1, NS-9, NS-13, NS-2, NS-4, NS-12, NS-3, NS-3b, NS-5, NS-15, NS-14, NS-11.
Risk core: 16 risk standards.
Anchor nexus streams: 7 risk standards.
Exponential technology: 18 risk standards.
Finance and insurance: 9 risk standards.
Policy and governance: 11 risk standards.
Development, society and humanitarian action: 10 risk standards.
Cross-cutting domains: 12 risk standards.
Risk intelligence, evidence and communication: 7 risk standards.
Programme and institutional: 8 risk standards.
System implementation profiles: 21 risk standards.
Hazard family standards (NHS-1): 120 risk standards.
Risk method fabrics (Risk Master): 23 risk standards.
Universe platform profiles: 27 risk standards.
Applied domain pack profiles: 50 risk standards.
AI-native, ontology-native standards infrastructure: 9 risk standards.

01Overview

Summary

In one linestatus

Statusevery standard is open for drafting and comment, or proposed; none is adopted
Adoptiononly the Global Standards Council, and for each country its National Standards Council
Licencestext, registries and data CC BY 4.0; tools Apache-2.0
Feenone to read, comment or propose

Nexus Standards · proposed

Foundation standards: 18; NS-0 to NS-16
Risk standards: 348; in 15 series
Citations: 103; between foundation standards
External standards: 253; referenced, never copied

02What they are

The standards and their status

Question	Answer
What are the Nexus Standards?	Open standards for identifying, describing, classifying, measuring, verifying and citing risk knowledge, maintained by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) as Secretariat and stewarded with The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA).
Are any of them adopted?	No. Every standard is open for drafting and comment, or proposed. Only the Global Standards Council adopts them, and for each country only its National Standards Council; see governance.
Are they ISO or IEC standards?	No. They never reproduce another body’s text. Where an external standard exists, a Nexus standard adopts, profiles, crosswalks to or cites it, and the external text governs; see the compatibility profiles.

03Using them

Citing, licensing and versions

Question	Answer
How do I cite a standard?	By its UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) and version, as set out in NS-2; machine-readable citation metadata is in the canonical repository.
What may I reuse?	Text, registries and data are licensed CC BY 4.0 and tools Apache-2.0; names of external standards and bodies belong to their owners. See the standards IP policy and third-party notices.
How are versions handled?	Each identifier can carry a version, and a conformance claim names the version it was made against. A patch is an editorial change.

04Conformance

Conformance and implementations

Question	Answer
Can my organisation claim conformance?	An implementation states its conformance under NS-14; the statement stays self-declared until attestations under NS-11 by an evaluator with a mandate raise it. Nothing on this site is a certification, accreditation or approval.
Is there a register of implementations?	Yes, the register of implementations, in which an implementer states which standards it implements and with what status. It is empty until the first entry is accepted; see the standards.

05Taking part

Comment, propose and contact

Question	Answer
Who may take part?	Any stakeholder, free of charge: a change is submitted as a proposal under NS-13; see develop a standard.
Are there open roles or calls?	Calls for experts, editors and reviewers are published with the programme areas they serve and on develop a standard.
How do journalists and others reach the standards team?	Through the routes on contact, by subject.

06Questions

Questions and answers.

What does a UNI say about the record it identifies?

Only which record it is. A Nexus identifier identifies a record and never certifies it.

Is there a fee?

No. Reading, commenting and proposing are free of charge.

Around the standards.

Standards

Take part in the standards.

Governments, regulators, standards bodies, industry, academia and communities are invited to shape the catalogue ahead of its first official release, targeted for 2030: comment on a draft, propose a change, join a working group or host a field exercise.

Propose a change Roadmap to 2030 Adopt and implement

Status and use. The Nexus Standards are proposed standards developed through an open process under NS-13 and published for voluntary use; they do not constitute certification, accreditation or regulatory approval, and adoption remains a decision of the Global Standards Council and, in each country, of its National Standards Council. A UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) identifies an artefact; it does not certify it. Names of standards bodies and their standards belong to their stewards and are used only to identify the documents; no text of an external standard is reproduced here. Nexus Standards is not affiliated with, endorsed by or certified by any standards body named here.

Licences: CC BY 4.0 for standards text, registries, schemas and data; Apache-2.0 for reference code. External standards are cited by name, number and link under their own licences. Third-party data, libraries and fonts keep their own licences: see Third-party notices.