Specifying the Standard

How the standard is referenced in the instruments that give it force. The standard is voluntary and creates no obligations of its own — see Status of the Standard; a reference acquires exactly the force the instrument gives it. The model language below is illustrative. Instruments are drafted by the parties and their counsel; the standard supplies the reference points: the edition, the scope statement, and the definition of conformance.

The anatomy of a reference

A complete reference names three things:

1. The edition — "the Apareé Digital Architecture Guidelines, first edition." Claims and obligations attach to an edition, not to a moving text.
2. The scope — the building's published scope statement: active domains, the primary interface, published parameters.
3. The obligation — what the instrument actually requires: to conform, to maintain conformance, to be specified toward, or to support the Required behaviors.

A reference that names the standard without the edition and scope names an ambition, not an obligation.

Model language

Development brief / design stage.

The building shall be specified toward the Apareé Digital Architecture Guidelines, first edition. Design documentation shall identify, for each domain intended to be active at operation, the design determinants of the Required behaviors, as outlined in the standard's design guidance.

Management agreement.

The operator shall maintain the building's conformance to the Apareé Digital Architecture Guidelines, first edition, within the building's published scope statement, and shall maintain the scope statement and published parameters as defined under the standard's conformance provisions. Examination may be performed by the owner or a party the owner designates.

Brand agreement / branded residence.

The residence shall maintain conformance to the Apareé Digital Architecture Guidelines, first edition, within its published scope statement, as the behavioral baseline beneath Brand's service standards. Conformance to the standard does not substitute for, and is not limited by, Brand's own standards.

System procurement / RFP.

Proposed systems shall support the Required behaviors of the building's active domains under the Apareé Digital Architecture Guidelines, first edition — including acceptance and propagation of external credential state with stated revocation timing, preservation and export of records at platform migration, notification scoping by zone, and operation of the published alternative methods independent of the primary method's device, network, and system components.

Resident-facing reference.

This building operates to the Apareé Digital Architecture Guidelines, first edition, within its published scope statement, available through the building's primary interface.

What a reference does not do

Referencing the standard does not engage Apareé, and conformance obligations in an instrument are owed to the instrument's parties — not to Apareé, and not to the standard. The standard supplies definitions and the means of examination; the instrument decides remedies, timelines, and consequences. Where an instrument's requirements and the standard differ, the instrument governs its parties; the standard governs only what may be claimed as conformance.