Governance
Draft · protocol 3.0.0-draft
Stewardship
Section titled “Stewardship”EcoClaim Solutions is the initial steward of TRP. The steward will name a product owner, technical editor, methodology lead and change-control owner.
Planned practices: contribution rules, an issue template, a request-for-comments process, technical review criteria, conflict-of-interest disclosures, a security reporting address and a deprecation policy.
To be credible across the industry, TRP needs review from insurers, adjusters, contractors, manufacturers, recyclers, engineers, life-cycle-assessment experts and software vendors. No external endorsement is implied.
Open and proprietary boundary
Section titled “Open and proprietary boundary”| Open protocol | EcoClaim proprietary |
|---|---|
| Field definitions and data types | TRAX workflows and user experience |
| Claim, waste, mitigation and material event records | ReBuild Better matching and ranking algorithms |
| Evidence and boundary metadata | Proprietary supplier coverage and commercial data |
| Result envelope and factor references | Private factor curation where licensing allows |
| Conformance fixtures and validators | Extraction pipelines, orchestration and prompts |
| Option comparison and decision formats | Customer-specific pricing models and integrations |
| Security and privacy guidance, change logs | Hosting, analytics, enterprise reporting, support |
An open data format does not mean public access to confidential claim data, environmental-declaration databases, contractor records or partner pricing.
Licensing
Section titled “Licensing”Not yet decided. The intended direction is a permissive license for schemas and reference code and an open license for the narrative specification. Until a license is published, treat the content as all-rights-reserved and contact EcoClaim before reuse.
Trademarks
Section titled “Trademarks”TRAX is a trademark of EcoClaim. Use of the name for implementations and conformance claims will be governed by a published policy.
Open decisions
Section titled “Open decisions”| Topic | Notes |
|---|---|
| Open license for prose, schemas and code | Pending legal review |
| Conformance claims and review board | Pending leadership decision |
| Initial geographies (US, Canada, UK) | Affects units, codes, factors, currency |
| Engineering and LKQ approval authority | Prevents unsafe substitution claims |
| Resilience perils and scoring | Avoids unsupported composite scores |
| Factor and declaration redistribution rights | Needs license review |
| Priority of contents and equipment modules | Scope of the first implementation |
Security reports
Section titled “Security reports”A security reporting address will be published here before any public API is offered.