Nexus Standards · Oceans and coasts risk standards · Standards that apply
Oceans and coasts risk
The 4 standards listed for oceans and coasts risk in the registry, each with its status, UNI (Unique Nexus Identifier) and the rules stated in its text.
Status proposed · trust, authorization and assurance · NXS-STD-ST-000004
| Rule | Text |
|---|---|
NS0-P1 | Open · The standards, their registries, schemas, catalogs and reference tools are published in the canonical repository under the licences recorded in LICENSING.md. Participation in development is open to every community and stakeholder under GOVERNANCE.md. No standard depends on a proprietary artifact, product, account or mark to be applied. |
NS0-P2 | Machine-readable first · Every normative element exists as data (registry, schema, clause) before it exists as prose; prose explains, data governs. A standard with no machine form is not a Nexus Standard. |
NS0-P3 | Identified · Every artifact, record, deployment, policy and clause carries a UNI (NS-1, NS-3, NS-9). Nothing is cited by a name alone. |
NS0-P4 | Verified, not asserted · Conformance is a claim with evidence: receipts, digests, signed attestations and observations (NS-11). A claim without evidence is recorded as a claim, never as a fact, and the claim ceiling of the implementation bounds every statement it makes. |
NS0-P5 | Zero trust · Authenticated is not authorized; entitled is not authorized; access is denied by default. Every verification, monitoring and enforcement path assumes no implicit trust between systems, tenants, sites or agents, and records who verified what under which mandate. |
NS0-P6 | Real-time · Standards express obligations that can be evaluated continuously against live records (observations, releases, corrections, deployments), and the standards themselves are versioned so that an implementation can state exactly which version it conforms to at any instant. |
NS0-P7 | Provenance everywhere · Every artifact records what it was derived from, who produced it, under which release and policy decision, and what corrected it (NS-3b, PROV-O profile). Corrections supersede; nothing is silently rewritten. |
NS0-P8 | Honest · A UNI identifies and resolves; it never certifies. legalState defaults to review-required. Readiness, approval and production status are never implied by a standard, a status, a page, a score or a badge. |
NS0-P9 | Nexus-aware · Standards address cross-domain interdependence (water, energy, food, health, biodiversity, climate and the sectors they touch) explicitly: an obligation can reference artifacts in another domain, and cascades are first-class. |
NS0-P10 | Names are governed · Codes are never names. Public names follow the marks policy (governance/OPEN_BOUNDARY_IPR_AND_LICENSING.md, section 7). A system or component is shown by its neutral display name and its UNI; the UNI may change with context (NS-9), and no name infringes anyone's mark. |
NS0-P11 | Community-owned development · Proposals, comments, decisions and versions of every standard are themselves artifacts with UNIs. The development process is specified (NS-13) and open, and authority to adopt is recorded, never assumed. |
NS0-P12 | Fail closed · Missing evidence, a missing legal state, a missing policy decision or unavailable verification results in a refusal with a typed reason, never in a pass. |
The map frames the Red Sea as an example geography for oceans and coasts risk; the frame gives context and is not a statement of where the standards apply. Shown at first: sea surface temperature anomaly (GHRSST MUR25, NASA JPL PO.DAAC). The layer drawer adds sea surface temperature (GHRSST MUR); ocean chlorophyll-a concentration (MODIS Aqua ocean colour); sea ice concentration (GHRSST MUR); and true colour (VIIRS NOAA-20 corrected reflectance). NASA products are served through NASA GIBS under NASA's open data policy, with acknowledgement; coastlines, boundaries and place names come from NASA GIBS reference layers (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL) and Natural Earth (public domain). Each layer shows its own observation date; full credits are given under the map. Other sources of the profile, such as Copernicus Marine Service ocean products and Coral Reef Watch daily 5 km heat stress products, are listed for reference.
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NASA GIBS / EOSDIS · ASTER GDEM (METI, NASA) · Blue Marble (NASA) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Natural Earth
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Ocean state, framed on the Red Sea. Layers as NASA publishes them, each with its own date.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place.
Layers and dates
Status proposed · trust, authorization and assurance; canonical risk data, records and provenance · NXS-STD-ST-000003
NS-3 states its requirements in sections rather than in a table of rules.
Status proposed · trust, authorization and assurance; canonical risk data, records and provenance · NXS-STD-SW-000005
NS-3b states its requirements in sections rather than in a table of rules.
Status proposed · trust, authorization and assurance · NXS-STD-ST-000007
| Rule | Text |
|---|---|
NS11-R1 | A conformance statement shall rest on an attestation, and an attestation shall name an evaluator, a mandate, evidence references and a digest. |
NS11-R2 | Under zero trust, subject and evaluator shall be distinct, and production evaluations shall run outside the subject's trust boundary. |
NS11-R3 | Missing or unresolvable evidence shall yield INDETERMINATE or REFUSED, never PASS (NS0-P12). |
NS11-R4 | Attestations shall be append-only and superseded rather than changed; monitoring records shall be observations with record UNIs. |
NS11-R5 | Every displayed conformance value shall carry its evaluation instant and its evaluator; projections shall not store verdicts. |
NS11-R6 | Exports to Verifiable Credentials, in-toto or PROV-O are crosswalks; the Nexus attestation shall remain the record of truth. |
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