WIA-ENE-039: Resource Depletion — Reference Simulator

Overview

The Resource Depletion — Reference Simulator standard (WIA-ENE-039) documents the WIA Standards canonical envelope shape, API surface, protocol exchanges, and ecosystem integration for resource depletion hosts that need to interoperate across jurisdictions, vendors, and operational contexts.

The standard composes with the wider WIA Standards family to inherit cross-standard composition, audit transport (W3C Trace Context plus OpenTelemetry semantic conventions), and federation handshakes (per WIA-INTENT) without per-standard re-implementation.

Phase organisation

• spec/PHASE-1.md — Phase 1 wire-format envelopes
• spec/PHASE-2.md — Phase 2 REST + JSON-RPC surface
• spec/PHASE-3.md — Phase 3 protocol exchanges and federation
• spec/PHASE-4.md — Phase 4 ecosystem composition and compliance

Normative references

• ISO 14040:2006 / 14044:2006 LCA
• ISO 14045:2012 (Eco-efficiency)
• ISO 14046:2014 (Water footprint)
• ISO 14067:2018 (Carbon footprint of products)
• Global Footprint Network National Accounts
• UNEP IRP Global Resources Outlook 2024
• EU Eurostat Material Flow Accounts methodology
• OECD Material Flows and Resource Productivity
• World Resources Institute Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas

Companion artefacts

• README.md — scope, normative references, governance
• cli/resource-depletion.sh — POSIX shell helper with sample envelope generators
• eBook EN — 8 chapters
• eBook KO — 8 chapters
• Reference simulator
• Press kit

Conformance

A standard is conformant when (1) every Phase 1 envelope it emits validates against the published JSON Schema for that envelope class, (2) every Phase 2 endpoint it exposes honours the documented status codes, content shapes, and error envelopes, (3) every Phase 3 protocol exchange it participates in honours the handshake order, signature requirements, and audit hook contract, and (4) Phase 4 ecosystem composition reaches the required cross-standard capabilities (audit transport, identity, federation) per the Phase 4 Sec 4 capability matrix.

Implementation timeline (typical)

A first implementation of the Resource Depletion standard typically follows: stand up the reference container at wia/resource-depletion-host:1.0.0; run the conformance suite at https://github.com/WIA-Official/wia-resource-depletion-conformance end-to-end; replace the mock backend with a real backend one endpoint at a time; wire audit-log replication out to the operations sink; onboard a single trusted peer for federation; expand to multiple peers; promote to production with the warning-envelope subscription enabled and the runbook from the Phase 4 Sec 5 implementer note followed.

Cross-standard composition recap

The Resource Depletion standard composes with the wider WIA Standards family. Implementations that adopt the canonical envelope reuse the cross-standard audit transport (W3C Trace Context plus OpenTelemetry semantic conventions per wia.standard.slug = resource-depletion and wia.standard.phase), the cross-standard identity (WIA-OMNI-API), and the cross-standard runtime trust list (WIA-AIR-SHIELD) without per-standard re-implementation.

Backwards-compatibility envelope

Within the 1.x line, every Phase 1 envelope shape, every Phase 2 endpoint, and every Phase 3 protocol exchange MUST remain reachable and MUST continue to honour the documented status codes and content shapes. Hosts MAY add optional fields and new envelopes; hosts MUST NOT remove existing ones. Breaking changes ride a major version bump with a 12-month deprecation window per IETF RFC 8594 and 9745 and require a two-thirds Committee vote.

Privacy and data-minimisation envelope

Hosts that process personal data through Resource Depletion envelopes MUST honour the operator's per-jurisdiction privacy law (EU GDPR, UK GDPR, California CPRA, Brazil LGPD, Canada PIPEDA, Korea PIPA, Japan APPI, Australia Privacy Act) including data-minimisation, purpose-limitation, storage-limitation, integrity + confidentiality, and accountability principles. Subject-rights endpoints (access, rectification, erasure, portability, restriction, objection) compose with WIA-OMNI-API Sec 5 subject-rights surface and need not be re-implemented per standard.

Disaster recovery and continuity envelope

Hosts running this standard publish a continuity-of-operations envelope per ISO 22301:2019 + ISO/IEC 27031 + NIST SP 800-34 Rev 1 covering: per-host RTO (Recovery Time Objective), per-host RPO (Recovery Point Objective), per-host backup envelope (per-region cross-replicated immutable backup), per-host failover-rehearsal envelope (typically quarterly), per-host vendor-exit envelope. Composes with WIA Secure Enclave for sealed-backup envelopes and with WIA-AIR-SHIELD for runtime trust-list re-hydration on the failover instance.

Governance

Maintained under the WIA Standards public-benefit governance model. See https://wiastandards.com/governance/ for committee composition, voting rules, and the per-standard release calendar.