Governance and change process
XCIM was initiated by We Are 14 Inc. and remains in founder-led Phase 0 governance during v0.x.
Latest specification · draft-saez-xcim-04
Experimental individual Internet-Draft. A bounded C01/SR01 testnet pilot verified consent reuse and revocation on 26 October 2026; production readiness remains open.
Current control
We Are 14 Inc. currently controls the xcim.org and
xcim.net properties and coordinates editing and approval of
the v0.1 draft. No independent foundation, standards body or formal
working group is claimed.
Changes during Phase 0
- Normative decisions are recorded as versioned architecture decisions.
- Breaking semantic or byte-level changes require an explicit version and changelog entry.
- The product owner approves Phase 0 normative decisions after technical review.
- The public implementer repository publishes draft ADRs, schemas, vectors and contribution guidance. Protocol proposals may also be submitted through the contact route.
License and release keys
Working Draft 02 + E1 is published with a version matrix, compatibility policy and artifact hashes. Substantive corrections require a named erratum or a new draft revision. The unsigned artifact manifest is not an issuer trust root.
The final public specification license and release-signing policy have not yet been approved. They must be published before the canonical v0.1 release; “open” does not imply an unstated license.
Intended evolution
After reproducible vectors and external pilots, governance is intended to include public proposals, documented maintainer admission/removal and broader multi-issuer review. That future process is not represented as existing today.