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Foundry Build and Readiness

Foundry Build and Readiness documents builds in Foundry: what was built, its tests and reviews, and the readiness evidence for its intended use.

01Register

Foundry Build and Readiness on the record.

Reports
  1. 01FieldsResearch and evidence
  2. 02STEM methods3 canonical methods applied
  3. 03Topics8 subject pages
  4. 04Counterparts1 platforms in shared fields
  5. 05PublisherThe Global Centre for Risk and Innovation
02Contributors

Platforms that contribute.

03Scope

What the series covers and at what unit.

Editions describe build provenance, test coverage, security and assurance review, and the limits of the build’s validated use.

ElementIn this series
Unit of analysisA Foundry build or release
MethodBuild provenance, test and review records, assurance cases
04Out of scope

What an edition of this series does not do.

  • Claim production readiness without the deployment and acceptance evidence.
  • Describe features that are planned as available.
  • Omit known limitations.
05Draws on

The Foundry systems an edition draws on.

What each system is designed to supply to Foundry Build and Readiness; an edition cites a record only once it exists and has passed review.

SystemRoomsDesigned to supply
NXS-FAC (blueprints, builds and signing)Builds, ReleasesBuild provenance, verification results and release bundles
NXS-COR (compute, nodes and runtimes)FleetWhere a build runs and the posture of that infrastructure
NXS-APP (application catalogue and lifecycle)InstallationsInstallation and upgrade records for each application
NXS-NSF (trust, authorisation and assurance)AssuranceThe bounded assurance case and its reliance limits
06Editions

No edition is scheduled yet.

This series has no edition in the Baseline programme. Its editors commission editions from the first operational quarter. A planned edition is never shown as released.

07Risk Academy

Where the series’ subjects are taught.

Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium, teaches the subjects of Foundry Build and Readiness in these disciplines; GCRI links to the Academy as a partner and does not provide its courses.

08Sources

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The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.

09Questions

Questions and answers.

Who decides what is published?
The series editors, following the series method. No funder, sponsor or member can buy or block a finding.
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