GoodShyt Group Inc.

San Francisco CA United States of America deonte@goodshyt.fun https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8586-3650

This document proposes interoperable evidence record fields for reproducible research workflows. It is an independent working draft and is not an IETF publication or standard.

IntroductionResearch archives need immutable source identifiers and typed evidence claims. This proposal is informational.

Requirements Language The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

Record FieldsEach record carries source_id, locator, digest, claim_id, evidence_tier, falsifier, validation_status, and release_status. Missing fields are represented explicitly as unknown.

ProcessingImplementations MUST NOT convert an unknown result to a false result or a passing integrity check into an empirical validity claim. A revision MUST preserve the prior record and link to it.

Security and Privacy ConsiderationsImplementations SHOULD minimize personal data and MUST NOT publish credentials. Digests are integrity checks, not proof of truth or ownership.

IANA ConsiderationsThis document requests no IANA actions.

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Changes since -00 Editorial and tooling-conformance changes only; no technical content was changed.

• Added submissionType="IETF" to <rfc>
• Added BCP 14 Requirements Language section (document uses uppercase requirement keywords without the boilerplate; idnits error)
• Added RFC 2119 reference entry
• Added RFC 8174 reference entry
• Normalized author metadata (full name with ASCII form, initials, organization GoodShyt Group Inc., San Francisco CA postal, email, ORCID URI)
• Updated document date and revision number.