This standard provides comprehensive specifications and implementation guidelines.
This standard provides comprehensive specifications and implementation guidelines.
Implementation across vendors is inconsistent without a shared wire format. The software-testing standard provides signed envelopes, a federation protocol, and integration bindings to existing infrastructure so that conforming implementations interoperate without bespoke per-pair translation.
Specification phases live under ./spec/. The reference
CLI under ./cli/ demonstrates envelope generation per
Phase 1. The ./api/ surface documents the Phase 2
HTTP endpoints.
The WIA-COMP-013 standard is published under the WIA Standards framework. WIA Standards is an open ecosystem of interoperable wire formats, federation protocols, and integration bindings that let small organisations participate in markets historically dominated by single-vendor stacks.
The full text of every WIA standard is open and free to
implement. The WIA-COMP-013 envelope set is signed end-to-end so that
downstream consumers can verify provenance without trusting the
publisher's narrative. The associated reference CLI under
./cli/ emits canonical Phase 1 envelopes for
experimentation; the OpenAPI surface under ./api/
documents the Phase 2 publication and query endpoints.
For implementation guidance, the ./ebook/en/ and
./ebook/ko/ companion volumes walk through each
envelope class, the operational discipline that makes it useful,
and worked examples showing how the envelope chain answers
audit-relevant questions without depending on the publisher's
word.
Conforming implementations pass the WIA Standards v3 validator (21 checks covering envelope structure, signature discipline, ebook completeness, and citation integrity). Conformance attestation is itself a signed envelope visible to federated peers; integration partners verify it before granting share scope.
Independent re-implementation is welcome and is the point of the standard existing as an open document rather than a single vendor's product. Issues, conformance reports, and feature proposals are tracked via the upstream WIA Standards repository.
Citation discipline within the specification follows the WIA Citation Policy (CITATION-POLICY.md §3): only ISO, IEC, RFC, W3C, HL7, and equivalent international-standards-body references are cited normatively. Conference papers, single-vendor whitepapers, and unattributed quotations are excluded by policy. The intent is that the standard's normative content remains durable and machine-verifiable across re-implementations.