DEVIDENCE Conformance Profiles

This directory contains versioned conformance profiles that specialize existing DSEARCH / DEVIDENCE meanings into testable implementation requirements.

A profile in this directory is not part of Base Layer conformance merely because it is present in the standards repository. Its normative requirements bind only an implementation that explicitly claims the named profile and version.

Profiles may define observable conformance behavior, required distinctions, failure semantics, test vectors, bindings, or domain-specific constraints while preserving the governing meanings defined by the Terms of Reference, DSEARCH, and DEVIDENCE.

A profile must not silently redefine Base Layer semantics. If operational evidence shows that a profile distinction belongs in the Base Layer, that promotion requires a separate governed standards change under the then-current standards.

Profiles do not authorize their own adoption or promotion. Repository governance and the then-current standards govern acceptance, revision, deprecation, and replacement.

The adopted profile is:

devidence-acquisition-representation-v0.2.md — acquisition, representation identity, integrity comparison, compound/container materialization, bounded representation-adequacy assertions, reproducible provenance, and associated failure semantics.

The candidate profile is:

devidence-primary-source-analysis-interpretive-derivation-v0.1.md — direct primary-source confirmation, raw/normalized distinction, bounded corpus-negative claims, reference resolution, interpretive derivation, operation-taxonomy versioning, authority bindings, disagreement preservation, and supersession.