Change
Log
Official record of additions, corrections, clarifications, deprecations, technical revisions, governance updates, and publication changes across the 360WiSE Official Canon.
Change Log establishes the official method for recording how the 360WiSE Official Canon changes over time.
It preserves transparency, accountability, technical continuity, governance history, and institutional memory by documenting each material addition, correction, clarification, deprecation, removal, or supersession.
Official Definition
Change Log is the official append-only record of material changes made to the 360WiSE Official Canon and its associated specifications, registries, schemas, reference implementations, and publication metadata.
Purpose
Transparency
Make each material change visible and attributable.
Continuity
Preserve the relationship between current and prior versions.
Accountability
Document why changes occurred and who approved them.
Scope
This record applies to all 27 Canon documents, white papers, structured schemas, public registries, technical specifications, implementation guidance, broadcast infrastructure records, identifiers, APIs, security controls, and public-facing correction notices.
Change Management Principles
- Published history must not be silently rewritten.
- Every material change must be attributable.
- Reason, impact, and affected components must be stated.
- Technical and editorial changes must be distinguishable.
- Superseded material should remain discoverable.
- Corrections must preserve evidence of the prior state.
- Security-sensitive details may be redacted while the existence of the change remains public.
Change Categories
Addition
Introduces new normative or informative material.
Correction
Fixes an error in published content.
Clarification
Improves meaning without changing intent.
Editorial
Changes presentation, grammar, or formatting.
Technical
Changes architecture, behavior, interfaces, or conformance.
Governance
Changes authority, review, policy, or institutional boundaries.
Deprecation
Marks material for future retirement.
Removal
Withdraws material from the current Canon.
Version Classification
| Class | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Substantive change to architecture, governance, or normative behavior. | 1.0 → 2.0 |
| Minor | Backward-compatible expansion or clarification. | 1.0 → 1.1 |
| Patch | Correction that does not alter intended behavior. | 1.0.0 → 1.0.1 |
| Editorial | Presentation-only change with no technical effect. | Tracked separately |
Editorial Changes
Editorial changes include grammar, typography, spacing, formatting, broken links, navigation labels, accessibility improvements, and non-substantive wording corrections.
Technical Changes
Technical changes include architecture, serialization, hashing, validation, endpoints, event behavior, data models, interoperability, implementation requirements, or conformance rules.
Governance Changes
Governance changes address authority, review bodies, publication rights, correction procedures, public boundaries, ethics, conflict handling, or institutional oversight.
Identity Changes
Identity changes include canonical names, entity relationships, identifier rules, aliases, role separation, or persistent entity records.
Verification Changes
Verification changes include evidence requirements, verification scope, review methods, confidence statements, boundary language, and correction behavior.
Resolution Changes
Resolution changes affect identifier lookups, canonical records, redirects, machine-readable responses, status handling, and continuity across updated records.
Provenance Changes
Provenance changes address origin, authorship, source hierarchy, evidence lineage, claim-to-evidence mapping, custody, hashes, and public attribution.
Continuity Changes
Continuity changes document migrations, renames, mergers, leadership transitions, corrections, supersessions, and relationships between historical and current records.
Recognition Changes
Recognition changes affect observation methods, reproducibility, source independence, recognition levels, dates, thresholds, and public reporting boundaries.
Broadcast Changes
Broadcast changes include channel, program, episode, event, schedule, stream, playback, distribution, device, and metadata architecture.
API Changes
API changes must identify affected endpoints, methods, payloads, response codes, authentication requirements, migration notes, and compatibility impact.
Schema Changes
Schema changes must state whether fields are added, renamed, deprecated, constrained, made optional, made required, or removed.
Security Changes
Security changes may include integrity controls, authentication, authorization, encryption, privacy, evidence access, incident handling, and threat mitigations.
Deprecations
Deprecated material remains valid only for the stated transition period. Each deprecation should include an effective date, replacement path, migration guidance, and planned removal date where known.
Backward Compatibility
Each technical change should indicate whether it is backward compatible, conditionally compatible, or breaking. Breaking changes require a major version or explicit transition policy.
Superseded Material
Superseded material must remain linked to the replacing document or version and should retain its original publication date, identifier, hash, and status.
Canon Cross References
When one Canon document changes another document’s interpretation or implementation, the change record should identify every affected Canon document and any required follow-up revision.
Historical Record
| Date | Version | Document | Category | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 | 1.0 | Framework | Addition | Initial Canon publication. | Active |
| 2026-07-18 | 1.0 | Identity | Clarification | Persistent verified entity identifier guidance established using the 360WSE namespace. | Active |
| 2026-07-18 | 1.0 | Broadcast Infrastructure | Technical | Broadcast service, object, protocol, and reference implementation structure published. | Active |
| 2026-07-18 | 1.0 | White Papers | Addition | Canonical research library and publication lifecycle established. | Active |
| 2026-07-18 | 1.0 | Reference Implementation | Editorial | Trademark marks limited to branded names rather than generic Canon components. | Editorial |
Publication Workflow
Approval Process
Material changes require review appropriate to their category. Technical changes require technical approval; governance changes require governance approval; security changes require security review; editorial changes may follow a simplified path.
Future Changes
Future Canon changes should preserve prior versions, publish transition notes where necessary, and avoid replacing public history with undocumented edits.
Registry Updates
| Required Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Change ID | Persistent identifier for the change record |
| Date | Publication date of the change |
| Version | Affected or resulting version |
| Document | Affected Canon document or technical artifact |
| Category | Addition, correction, clarification, technical, governance, security, deprecation, or removal |
| Author | Responsible author or institutional owner |
| Approval | Review and approval authority |
| Hash | Integrity digest of the released artifact |
| Status | Draft, approved, active, deprecated, superseded, or archived |
Revision History
| Version | Date | Status | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0 | 2026-07-18 | Active Canon | Initial publication of the official 360WiSE Canon change-management and historical record framework. |