Decision Provenance Standard™ v1.3 · Reading Edition (rev. 11)

Downloads

Version 1.3 of the Standard (reading edition rev. 11), released 2026-10-05: the six documents as PDF, Markdown and HTML, plus a complete release bundle with checksums. Earlier versions stay available unchanged below: version 1.2 (rev. 10), version 1.1 (rev. 9) and version 1.0 (rev. 8), including its Word files.

DocumentPDFMarkdownHTML
Core (normative)PDFMarkdownHTML
Companion A — Regulatory Cross-ReferencesPDFMarkdownHTML
Companion B — Worked Charter LibraryPDFMarkdownHTML
Companion C — Implementation GuidancePDFMarkdownHTML
Companion D — DiagramsPDFMarkdownHTML
Appendix G — Governance and ReferencesPDFMarkdownHTML

Complete release bundle

The full v1.3 release as a single archive: Markdown, HTML and PDF for all six documents (folders md/, html/ and pdf/), the figures the Markdown files link (folder md/diagrams/), and reference release 5.2.0 (folder standard/v5.0/):

Each Markdown file is the text at tag v1.3-rev11 of the standard repository, commit 1b1f22c52012e7b9f8b8d88007b0aded7aab5a2b, joined byte for byte; its SHA-256 digest is also recorded there, in spec/editions.json. The figures the Markdown files link are beside them, in diagrams/ (PNG and SVG), as released at the same tag.

Version 1.2 (reading edition rev. 10)

The v1.2 files, released 2026-09-28, stay exactly as published, at the same addresses and with the same checksums: the six documents as PDF, Markdown and HTML, and the v1.2 release bundle.

DocumentPDFMarkdownHTML
Core (normative)PDFMarkdownHTML
Companion A — Regulatory Cross-ReferencesPDFMarkdownHTML
Companion B — Worked Charter LibraryPDFMarkdownHTML
Companion C — Implementation GuidancePDFMarkdownHTML
Companion D — DiagramsPDFMarkdownHTML
Appendix G — Governance and ReferencesPDFMarkdownHTML

The full v1.2 release as a single archive: Markdown, HTML and PDF for all six documents (folders md/, html/ and pdf/), the figures the Markdown files link (folder md/diagrams/), and reference release 5.1.2 (folder standard/v5.0/):

Each Markdown file is the text at tag v1.2-rev10 of the standard repository, commit 60a938f553a96f40ec276d0b46d17c29f366d06d, joined byte for byte; its SHA-256 digest is also recorded there, in spec/editions.json. The figures the Markdown files link are beside them, in diagrams/ (PNG and SVG), as released at the same tag.

Version 1.1 (reading edition rev. 9)

The v1.1 files, released 2026-09-28, stay exactly as published, at the same addresses and with the same checksums: the six documents as PDF, Markdown and HTML, and the v1.1 release bundle.

DocumentPDFMarkdownHTML
Core (normative)PDFMarkdownHTML
Companion A — Regulatory Cross-ReferencesPDFMarkdownHTML
Companion B — Worked Charter LibraryPDFMarkdownHTML
Companion C — Implementation GuidancePDFMarkdownHTML
Companion D — DiagramsPDFMarkdownHTML
Appendix G — Governance and ReferencesPDFMarkdownHTML

The full v1.1 release as a single archive: Markdown, HTML and PDF for all six documents (folders md/, html/ and pdf/), and reference release 5.1.1 (folder standard/v5.0/):

Each Markdown file is the text at tag v1.1-rev9 of the standard repository, commit ad00e522b7ce2aa8bbb07c5478bb72935cccc9c5, joined byte for byte; its SHA-256 digest is also recorded there, in spec/editions.json.

Found after release: the Markdown files link their figures in a diagrams/ folder that the release folder did not include. The figures, as released at tag v1.1-rev9, were added beside the files on 2026-09-28, in diagrams/, with new lines in SHA256SUMS.txt. No existing file or checksum line changed. The v1.1 bundle is unchanged and does not include them. Also found after release: in the Companion A PDF, the two links on the last page (to the firewall page and to the comparison with frameworks) point at a local address used when the PDF was printed, not at this site. The PDF stays as released, because its checksum is published; the same pages are at firewall.html and dps-comparison-frameworks.html.

Version 1.0 (reading edition rev. 8)

The rev. 8 files stay exactly as published, at the same addresses and with the same checksums: the six documents as editable Word files and as PDFs (figures embedded), and the rev. 8 release bundle.

DocumentWordPDF
Core (normative)DOCXPDF
Companion A — Regulatory Cross-ReferencesDOCXPDF
Companion B — Worked Charter LibraryDOCXPDF
Companion C — Implementation GuidanceDOCXPDF
Companion D — DiagramsDOCXPDF
Appendix G — Governance and ReferencesDOCXPDF

The Standard text is published under CC-BY 4.0; the reference files under the MIT License. The machine-readable reference files (reference release 5.2.0) are published at /standard/v5.0/, with source and corrections at github.com/decision-provenance-standard/standard (see Reference Files).

Optional extensions

Optional extensions are proposals published beside the Standard. They are not part of the Standard or of any release above, and they are not in these folders or their checksum lists. See Optional extensions.

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The records are input, not evidence. The Standard informs frameworks without satisfying them. Conformance is self-declared; no body certifies it. It is not legal advice and not a regulatory substitute.
Decision Provenance Standard™ v1.3 — Reading Edition (rev. 11). Open standard under CC-BY 4.0. Not a certified product. Founding Steward: Yohay Etsion; institutional Steward: Etsion Brands Ltd.