irlpls is a small public project. Today one maintainer decides. Contact: hello@irlpls.com.
What is decided where
- The standard (
docs/STANDARD.mdandschema/): the maintainer. A change needs a changelog entry, and a new date version if a field is removed or renamed. - Cards: the provider, for its own card. Anyone may compile an
unclaimedcard from public sources, citing a source for every claim. A card becomesprovider-maintainedwhen the provider serves it from its own domain. - The benchmark: irlpls shows what each provider states about each guarantee, and which separate verifiers have checked it. It checks nothing itself, and a card has no overall score.
What irlpls will not do
- Capture anything, sell data, or take a cut.
- Rank providers for money, or accept payment to change a card.
- Let a compiled card outrank the provider: where a provider states something itself, its own statement wins.
When this changes
This page is written for a project with one decision-maker. It changes when other organisations implement the standard independently. The next step then is a neutral home (a Linux Foundation project or a W3C community group) with a written process for changes, and a conformance suite anyone can run. Until then, every change is recorded in the changelog.