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Governance
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The UNTP governance framework follows UN/CEFACT standard governance methodology and is designed to provide implementers with confidence that UNTP:
- is a public good that cannot be captured by any specific commercial interest and is permanently free to use.
- is developed via a consensus based process that ensures it will meet the needs of value chain actors and member states.
- is specific, testable, and rigorously versioned so that implementers can be confident of stability and interoperability.
- is compatible with relevant national and international standards and regulations.
The governance framework covers three distinct domains.
Specification Development
How the UNTP specification itself is developed, maintained, and versioned as a UN standard — including the UN/CEFACT framework, working groups, participation rules, change management process, and version management.
Implementation Governance
How organisations that implement UNTP register and demonstrate conformance through testing — covering software platforms, conformity scheme owners, conformity assessment bodies, identifier registers, and community extension specifications. This is the bottom-up process by which individual implementations earn registration by passing tests and providing evidence.
Sectoral Collaboration
How communities working in the same sector or jurisdiction collaborate on harmonisation, re-use, and the sharing of lessons across multiple UNTP extensions and implementations. This is the top-down process that complements implementation governance — ensuring that technically interoperable implementations also converge on shared semantics and best practices through sectoral fora.