The WIA-QUA-020 standard defines the comprehensive framework for advanced scientific instruments used in cutting-edge research and discovery. This standard covers particle accelerators, mass spectrometers, electron microscopes, X-ray crystallography systems, NMR spectrometers, gravitational wave detectors, telescopes, spectrophotometers, chromatography systems, calorimeters, data acquisition systems, and calibration standards.
Scope: Particle Accelerators: LHC, synchrotrons, cyclotrons, linear accelerators · Mass Spectrometers: TOF-MS, quadrupole, ion trap, Orbitrap · Electron Microscopes: TEM, SEM, STEM with atomic resolution · X-ray Crystallography: Single-crystal and powder diffraction · NMR Spectrometers: High-field NMR for structural analysis · Gravitational Wave Detectors: LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA interferometers
This simulator demonstrates the canonical envelope shape defined in the standard's Phase 1 specification. Click the button below to generate a sample envelope; the output is a JSON document that conforming implementations can verify with the reference CLI.
Every envelope in this standard is signed with Ed25519 over the canonical JSON form (RFC 8785 JCS). The signature covers all fields except the signature itself; downstream consumers verify by re-canonicalising and re-checking the Ed25519 signature against the publisher's tenant key registered in the WIA-OMNI-API trust fabric.
# Reference verification flow (pseudocode)
canon = jcs_canonicalise(envelope_without_signature)
ok = ed25519_verify(publisher_pubkey, canon, envelope.signature.value)
assert ok, "envelope signature does not verify"The metrics below reflect the standard's validator score and the cohort of conforming implementations registered with the WIA trust fabric. Numbers are illustrative; the actual figures evolve as the ecosystem grows.
This page is a Phase 1 envelope simulator for the WIA-QUA-020
standard. It is intentionally minimal: a working demonstration of
the envelope shape, not a production implementation. Production
implementations carry signing keys in the WIA-OMNI-API trust
fabric, validate against the schema registry, and emit envelopes
through the Phase 2 HTTP surface documented under
../api/.
The simulator is provided so that engineers evaluating the
standard can see a concrete envelope without standing up a full
publisher endpoint. The reference CLI under ../cli/
produces equivalent envelopes from the command line, which is
the recommended path for any non-trivial experimentation.
For deeper context, the eBook companion volumes describe the domain rationale for each envelope field. Field choices in this standard are not arbitrary: each field exists to answer a question that downstream auditors, regulators, or interoperability partners would otherwise have to derive from the publisher's narrative documentation.