Codex Commons Publication Policy defines the governance, acceptance, versioning and publication rules through which Codex artifacts receive canonical public standing.
No semantic artifact acquires canonical public standing through visibility alone. Canonical standing is established through intentional publication.
Publication Preconditions
An artifact may be published only when it has:
- a defined purpose;
- a stable identity;
- a named steward;
- clear provenance;
- an explicit version;
- defined dependencies;
- a human-readable explanation;
- a machine-readable form where applicable;
- an assigned normative or informative status;
- publication approval;
- a revision and supersession path; and
- clear usage or licensing terms.
Publication Decisions
Publication review may result in one of the following decisions:
- Publish — approve the identified version for public standing in Codex Commons.
- Return for revision — require changes before publication can be reconsidered.
- Retain as research — keep the artifact within Codex Resonance research without public canonical standing.
- Deprecate — mark a published artifact as no longer recommended for use while preserving its record.
- Supersede — replace a published artifact with a later identified version or artifact.
- Withdraw — remove public standing while preserving provenance of the decision where appropriate.
Meaning of Publication
Publication does not assert universal correctness. It asserts that Codex Resonance has intentionally made the identified version available as part of its public semantic architecture.
Canonical Standing
A Codex Commons artifact is canonical only for the identified artifact, version and publication status recorded in the Commons Register.
Publication does not:
- make the artifact authoritative inside any particular enterprise;
- convert public semantic structure into institutional policy;
- remove the need for enterprise evaluation, mapping, specialisation, constraint or rejection;
- create a compliance claim; or
- imply universal acceptance.
Revision and Supersession
Published artifacts require a controlled revision and supersession path. Changes must preserve provenance, version continuity and publication status.
Revision may clarify, extend, deprecate, supersede or withdraw an artifact. It must not silently replace the meaning of an existing published version.
Usage and Licensing
Usage or licensing terms must be recorded for each published artifact. Do not describe an artifact as open source or an open standard unless the relevant licensing or standards process has been explicitly established.
Codex Commons is the governed public publication surface of the accepted Codex Layer developed through Codex Resonance.