OpenETR Roadmap

OpenETR's next phase keeps the state-transition protocol small while making verification scope and uncertainty more explicit.

Each proof proves only what it proves.

Immediate Priorities

1. Align the primary documentation with regular event kinds 1415 and 1416 and the current Consequential State model.
2. Define machine-readable verifier dimensions for integrity, authenticity, graph continuity, transition validity, consequential state, retrieval coverage, evidence sufficiency, recognition, and external effect.
3. Preserve per-relay retrieval observations and report unknown completeness instead of assuming that no additional evidence exists.

Next Design Work

• define generic associated evidence for authorization, execution, Temporal Proof, identity, and system reliability;
• keep stable intent identity separate from individual execution attempts;
• add representation-neutral recognition adapters, including SD-JWT VC;
• keep credential validity separate from issuer authority; and
• continue the warehouse-receipt pilot, including change of medium and the China electronic-document mapping.

Monitored Work

OpenETR is monitoring SCITT temporal proofs, Vaara receipts, NIP-67, NIP-78, SD-JWT VC, MLETR and MLWR implementation, national electronic-document regimes, and UCC Article 12. Draft external schemas are design inputs, not automatic OpenETR dependencies.

Boundaries

The roadmap does not make Temporal Proof mandatory, infer global completeness from one relay, put KYC into the base protocol, or treat protocol validity as system reliability or legal effect.

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