open-standards/wai/pin-conformance/README.md
Transaction Science 3fac029a71 wai: every corpus states the provenance of its content
Each *-conformance/README.md now has a line that begins **Provenance.**:
the generator that writes the corpus and its input, and for an input not
generated here its source and licence. OER/2's corpus is settled and left
as it is. byte-exact-conformance and quantum-ops-conformance get a README.
wai-rs/tests/vectors/README.md gives a row per vector directory. Where the
staged-delivery, staged-measurement and telemetry READMEs called their
content "synthetic", that sentence is now their provenance line.

Two vectors are recorded as not generated, from the provenance audit:
int_video's video_real (a pan over a third-party picture) and
neural-conformance's photo (a third-party picture, with a decoder trained on
unrecorded images). Their lines say so and that they are to be replaced;
the photo bullet no longer names the picture's source product.

tests/corpus_provenance.rs requires the line in every corpus and a row for
every vector directory; CI runs it with the carriage tests. CONTRIBUTING
states the rule: corpus content is generated here, or recorded with a
licence that permits redistribution, and a word like "synthetic" is not a
provenance line.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-10-07 10:09:21 -04:00

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pin-conformance — the parameter-set pin

Vectors for the parameter-set pin (SPEC.md §3.1, §4, §7, §7.1).

Provenance. Generated here by wai_pin_vectors; the parameter-set files under sets/ are stand-in bytes written for the corpus. No media.

Reason-equivalence. A conforming verifier reports exactly the declared outcome for every case:

  • cases.json — given a pin, a capability, the forms the sink reads (default wai.prior.set) and the artifacts it holds, the outcome ok or the one reason SPEC §3.1 names: pin_malformed, form_not_registered, form_unreadable, form_required, prior_not_held, digest_superseded, set_malformed, part_mismatch. A held artifact is a file, or a listing together with the root its paths are read below. Paths are relative to this directory. The cases model a sink that holds no key log, so check 5 (prior_revoked, prior_not_authorised) does not run; it is covered by the parameter-set vectors of ../signer-conformance/ and the key_log library tests.
  • selection.json — given a WAI2 manifest, its payloads, the capabilities the sink advertises and the one-file parameter sets it holds, the rendition SPEC §7.1 picks and the reason for each entry it skips (not_selectable, missing_capability, component_digest_mismatch, or a pin reason); when nothing is picked, the reason for every entry. Where stated, also the companions applied with the pick, and the first component-role finding.
  • static.json — the first finding a verifier makes about a manifest's pins without holding a parameter set (prior_not_applicable, pin_malformed, tier_unregistered, supersedes_malformed, form_not_registered, form_required, tier_exceeds_class, a replicate_* reason), or ok. For a WAI2 manifest the finding is [entry index, reason].

Listings. Every listings/<name>.sha256 is, byte for byte, the listing of sets/<name>/: regular files, names that begin with . left out, sorted by path as bytes. A common checksum utility checks a set against its listing (cd sets/demo && sha256sum -c ../../listings/demo.sha256). Every file under listings/bad/ breaks one listing rule and is set_malformed.

Files are compared as bytes; .gitattributes turns off line-ending conversion.

Verifiers.

  • wai_pin_vectors verify pin-conformance (wai-rs) runs every file through the reference implementation's in-memory pin core (wai::pin::verify_bytes), its selection (WaiMulti::pick) and its static checks (Wai::check_pin, WaiMulti::check_pins). It runs in both corpus loops of the conformance workflow. wai_pin_vectors generate pin-conformance rewrites the listings from the sets.
  • pin_verify.py checks cases.json and listings/ with the Python standard library alone, re-implementing the listing rules and the ordered checks from the SPEC text. It shares no code with wai-rs.