The ANDM Standard is freely available to read, reference, cite, and implement. General Reasoning, Inc. holds editorial authority over the canonical specification text. The standard evolves through versioned releases, driven by community input.
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You are free to read, share, reproduce, and cite this standard in any medium or format for any purpose, including commercial, provided you give appropriate attribution to General Reasoning, Inc. and include a link to the license.
You may not distribute modified versions of the standard text, or create derivative works that present themselves as ANDM conformance requirements. Proposals to amend the standard are submitted through the community process below.
Implementation artifacts — code, tooling, audit substrates, and platform products built to ANDM conformance requirements — are not covered by this license and may carry any license their authors choose.
The ANDM Standard is released in named versions. Each version is a complete, immutable specification. Gaps, corrections, and additions become new versions — they do not retroactively alter prior releases. An organization that achieves ANDM v1.0 conformance retains that designation under that version.
General Reasoning, Inc. is the editorial body for the ANDM Standard. This means:
This model is consistent with how established technical standards bodies operate. The IETF publishes RFCs it controls. CMMI is version-controlled by the CMMI Institute. Editorial authority is not a restriction on use — it is what makes conformance meaningful. An ANDM badge on a product means something precisely because there is one body that decides what ANDM requires.
The standard evolves through structured gap proposals. If you have identified a conformance gap — a requirement the standard should address but does not, an ambiguity that creates divergent interpretations, or a domain extension the standard should recognize — submit an ANDM Improvement Proposal.
Describe the gap, the conformance area it touches, and your proposed resolution. Include your name and organization. Submissions are recorded in the Chandra audit chain.
General Reasoning reviews submissions for scope fit, technical soundness, and consistency with the standard's invariants. You will receive a response.
Proposals that pass initial review enter deliberation. This may include a comment period, discussion with the proposer, or requests for additional detail.
Accepted proposals are incorporated into the next version with attribution. Rejected proposals receive a written rationale. All outcomes are recorded.
ANDM gap proposals are not managed through a public code hosting platform. Regulated industries — financial services, healthcare, defense — cannot anchor their compliance posture to a third-party platform's availability or policy decisions. Submissions are recorded directly in the Chandra audit chain, which is append-only, hash-chained, and independently verifiable. The proposal record is governed by the same substrate the standard requires its implementers to use.