Research and editorial policy
A public architecture needs a traceable publication practice.
This page explains how the portal distinguishes published sources, maintained concept pages, adjacent research, commercial application, corrections, and protected implementation methods.
Trust does not come from sounding certain. It comes from showing which record supports the claim and who remains responsible for it.
Source hierarchy
Different records carry different authority.
- Published Standard and working-paper language controls claims attributed directly to those publications.
- Canonical concept pages maintain the current public IVA definition and may evolve after a paper is published.
- Primary public sources are preferred for adjacent research, standards, laws, frameworks, and institutional facts.
- Commercial pages describe current offers and applied interfaces; they do not rewrite the public research record.
- Illustrations and operating examples explain mechanisms but are not presented as empirical findings unless a source and method are identified.
Versioning
Stable publications and maintained concept pages are labeled differently.
Published PDFs, SSRN records, and DOI-linked working papers retain their own title, author line, date, version, and citation. The portal does not silently revise those source records.
Concept pages may be clarified as the architecture develops. Their visible published and modified dates, canonical URL, page title, and citation guidance identify the maintained web record used at a particular time.
Corrections
Material errors should produce a visible correction, not a quiet rewrite.
Factual, bibliographic, attribution, broken-link, or material definition errors may be reported to evan@ivasolution.com. Corrections to maintained web pages are reflected in the modification date. Changes to a published paper or Standard require a new version or correction record appropriate to that publication.
AI-assisted publishing
Tools may assist the workflow. The named author keeps responsibility.
AI tools may support retrieval, comparison, drafting, editing, technical publishing, accessibility, metadata, and quality checks for this portal. They are not treated as authors. Evan Foster remains responsible for the claims, source selection, definitions, publication boundaries, corrections, and final public text.
Machine assistance does not convert a secondary source into a primary one, make an inference into a finding, or authorize publication of protected methods or confidential information.
Public and protected
Research transparency does not require publishing the proprietary implementation system.
The public portal explains the IVA architecture, definitions, Standard, working papers, sources, and high-level applied instruments. Calibration, scoring interpretation, diagnostic sequencing, evidence templates, audit instruments, client matrices, and implementation playbooks remain protected unless a specific publication says otherwise.