2. Scope

2.1 In Scope

Determining whether decision evidence is ready for stated use within a stated decision scope.
Binary control requirements for identity, meaning, classification, relationship paths, preserved context, Gate records, evidence records, and reconstructable decision paths.
Deterministic evaluation rules requiring every applicable control to resolve to Pass or Fail, with Not Applicable permitted only from an explicit Applicability Rule.
Conformance profiles for Core Decision-Scope Controls, Extended Taxonomy Controls, Extended Ontology Controls, and AI Context Contract Controls.
Gate readiness states: Proceed, Caution, Stop, and Quarantined.
Implementation-neutral evidence requirements that may be satisfied through many technical or procedural mechanisms.
Control records and Conformance Records that can be inspected, queried, exported, or reconstructed by authorized reviewers or downstream systems.

Certification of a software product, platform, vendor, data model, or architecture as DACS-compliant in general.
A legal guarantee that a decision is correct, risk-free, compliant with external law, or immune from challenge.
Replacement of data governance, data quality, metadata management, taxonomy, ontology, lineage, AI governance, risk management, architecture, or stewardship disciplines.
Mandating a specific physical implementation such as a graph database, catalog, semantic layer, data warehouse, lakehouse, data vault, or workflow platform.
Defining a full organizational operating model, job family, training curriculum, or certification program.
Establishing a legal or regulatory compliance scheme unless such authority is separately granted and published by DataVaultAlliance Holdings LLC.