CDI-BoK governance

The Body of Knowledge is not credible because every text sounds definitive. It is credible when it makes visible what has authority, what evidence supports it, who may change it and what remains provisional.

Authority hierarchy

1. Approved CDI-BoK constitution and governance.
2. Current PULSE constitutional DNA.
3. Documentation map and controlled registries.
4. Approved glossary, standards and frameworks.
5. Guides, patterns and anti-patterns.
6. Cases, demonstrations and research notes.
7. External sources and historical corpus.
8. Drafts and AI proposals without current authority.

Visible controls

Concepts

A normative term has one canonical definition, an owner and controlled aliases.

Claims

A material claim states its class, evidence, scope, limits and verification date.

Sources

Every source records provenance, authority, status and permitted use.

Changes

Architecture decisions use ADRs and releases preserve history.

Key documents

• Editorial architecture and governance
• Claims and evidence
• Publishing and domain
• Repository and registries