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What a machine can read from the record today, for AI platforms, aggregators, and browser vendors.
The internet lacks a native protocol for organizational intent. While robots.txt tells a scraper what it is allowed to read, there is no standard telling that scraper how the content was produced.
Publishing Policy keeps one address per domain, publishingpolicy.org/<domain>. Each record page carries structured data naming the organization, the address and the dates, and each official version has a fingerprint of its text. A machine-readable file per record is not built yet; the state page lists what exists.
Nothing here grades anyone. A domain has a record or it does not.
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "CreativeWork",
"name": "Publishing Policy",
"about": "Publishing Policy",
"url": "https://publishingpolicy.org/example.com",
"dateCreated": "2026-09-23T00:41:22Z",
"dateModified": "2026-09-23T00:41:22Z",
"author": {
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Example (example.com)",
"url": "https://example.com",
"publishingPrinciples": "https://publishingpolicy.org/example.com"
},
"publisher": {
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "Publishing Policy",
"url": "https://publishingpolicy.org"
}
}This is the structured data the address serves today. A machine-readable record file is listed on the state page as not yet built.
Whoever filed a record proved control of the domain by a DNS record. Today a verification does not expire.
Domains change hands through sales or abandonment.
Today, when a different workspace proves control of a domain, the domain is removed from the workspace that held it before, together with that workspace's record and its history. Keeping the earlier record public when a domain changes hands is not built yet.
Request publishingpolicy.org/<domain>. The page shows the record, with its structured data, or says “No publishing policy on record for <domain>”.
Download the current version's receipt and run SHA-256 on it locally; the result should match the fingerprint shown on the record.
What you do with a record is your decision. Publishing Policy grades nothing and makes no claim about how any system uses the register.