Attestation Policy

• CURIE: gmeow:AttestationPolicy
• IRI: https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/AttestationPolicy
• Category: class
• Defined by: gmeow:slices/attestation
• Box roles: CBox role, TBox role (What is this?)

The policy or framework under which an attestation was issued — a value vocabulary (individuals, never subclasses). Open-ended; specific policies are minted as needed.

Structure

Subclass of: gufo:QualityValue

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:AttestationPolicy as a specialized kind of gufo:QualityValue. Add statement metadata or a standpoint when the assertion needs provenance, confidence, or vantage.

Usage Advice

Use when

• Use as the value vocabulary behind gmeow:attestationPolicy — the open set of individuals naming the rules or framework an attester followed (a SLSA build level, a credential-issuance policy, an editorial standard).

Avoid when

• Avoid minting per-policy subclasses (policies are individuals) and avoid using it for the attestation kind (gmeow:AttestationType); the policy is the governing framework, not the category, and policy satisfaction is a solver-layer verdict.

How to use

• Mint each policy as an individual and reference it via gmeow:attestationPolicy; the determination of whether a policy was met is a gmeow:VerificationResult (status policy-failed when unmet), computed in the solver layer.

Examples

• ex:slsaL3 a gmeow:AttestationPolicy; rdfs:label "SLSA build level 3"@en.