# UCE Framework Change Log

## Unreleased - WIPO-facing institutional-readiness review

- Clarified that UCE is a public-draft, implementation-independent framework and CbyUCE is the separate live implementation and current reference architecture.
- Added consistent WIPO and national-office non-affiliation language and an official national-office directory link.
- Distinguished technical verification results, recorded assertions, official registration, and legal conclusions.
- Aligned chronology terminology with the current CbyUCE implementation: Platform-Recorded Upload Date, separate file and manifest Arweave block dates, and the derived Complete UCE Record Date when both dates are available.
- Added truthful verification/conformance and governance status pages.
- Updated Website Terms and Privacy Policy to match the static framework Site.
- Adopted CC BY 4.0 for the specification and related framework documentation, with patent rights, trademarks, mark assets, software, legal policies, Site design, and third-party materials excluded.
- Identified 5 Race Street LLC, operating under the alternate name Copyright by UCE, as the present Site operator and organizational maintainer.
- Documented DreamHost hosting, routine network-data handling, and the Site's external resources.
- Limited present-tense verification claims to the artifacts and hosted CbyUCE route currently available while the provider-independent package remains unpublished.
- Added an interim UCE mark eligibility rule, a public case-handling policy, and a corrected downloadable mark pack.
- Added DreamHost deployment controls, a sitemap, and crawler guidance.
- Added an informative Appendix C crosswalk to the current representative CbyUCE record, including exact production field paths, separate file and manifest transactions, observed verification scope, chronology availability, and hosted-versus-provider-independent limitations.
- Clarified that the Appendix A reference structure is not an export or formal conformance map of the current CbyUCE production schema.
- Scoped the public `VERIFIED` terminology to checks actually reported as performed and replaced unqualified provider-independence language with `designed for independent verification` where current publication status requires it.

## 1.0 Public Draft - May 2026

- Published the initial UCE Evidentiary Standards & Verification Framework v1.0 Public Draft.