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Verifier Standard (VSTD)-Graph-5 — Corroborated Verification Network#

Reader aid: concept glossary and primary precedents.

Numbered profile: VSTD-Graph-5; required closure coordinate: Corroborated Verification Network (see LADDER.md) Status: project specification with implemented candidate and evidence-bound reference paths License: Apache-2.0

VSTD-Graph-5 is the collection profile for independently corroborated members, ancestors, and transformations. The candidate-profile computation requires object and edge ratings of at least 5, provenance closure, and admissible status throughout.

The compatibility implementation computes this profile over externally supplied profile-5 ratings and reports NOT_ESTABLISHED. The evidence-bound path can establish it only when registered mechanisms rerun exact VSTD-5 member/ancestor ratings and profile-5 transformation ratings from embedded evidence. Every rating is bound to the exact Graph bytes, deduplicated member set, collection identifier, and claim binding. A result based on self-declared ratings is not VSTD-Graph-5 conformance.

Conflicting witness records are retained as conflict records and make the relevant subject inadmissible to a clean candidate Graph profile. They are never averaged into a passing collection.