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Universal Manifest

Concepts

Core concepts:

  • UMID: the manifest @id (issuer-minted; v0.1 recommends urn:uuid:<uuidv4>)
  • TTL: issuedAt/expiresAt define freshness for use
  • Unknown-field tolerance: consumers must ignore unknown fields safely
  • Shards: small composable sections used for projections
  • Pointers: references to canonical data that lives elsewhere

These exist to avoid overbuilding and to keep adoption possible across multiple ecosystems.

Next:

  • Read Getting Started → Critical Path to see the minimal sequence from v0.1 adoption to publishable standards + resolver hosting.