Eight standards. One namespace.
Every standard documents deployed, running behaviour — the exact rules under which 651,483 names were indexed — and is frozen by conformance vectors. Conformance is technical and testable; no permission or committee is involved. Run the vectors, match the answers.
The standards
Conformance
What “conformant” means here — and why it needs nobody’s signature.
Two independent implementations conform when, given the same chain, they produce the same set of valid names with the same canonical keys, the same current outpoint and holder for every living name, and bit-identical sighashes for the answers they sign.
The vector sets freeze each standard: 34+ indexer vectors (validity and canonicalization), 19 human-readable name vectors, the resolver signature test vector, and the commitment layer’s golden vectors. Changing a frozen constant does not amend a standard — it demonstrably creates a different namespace.
The trust framework ties it together: five principles, three trust layers, the key inventory with one rotation procedure, escrow solved by construction, and the honest failure table — ending with the row that matters most: if ODNCA itself disappears, what is lost is a coordinator, not a registry.