Governance

The Service List Registry platform operates as neutral coordination infrastructure, offered free of charge to public users for media service discovery.

Governance is designed to support transparency, predictability, and long-term trust across a multi-sided ecosystem that includes users of media services, manufacturers of consumer electronics devices, providers of media services, and regulatory authorities.

Purpose

The purpose of the platform is to support an interoperable ecosystem, make cooperation predictable, and reduce coordination risk, within a sustainable shared service discovery infrastructure.

Our governance ensures that the platform remains openly accessible, neutral in operation, and consistent in behaviour, while allowing voluntary conformance assurance to be offered on a fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory basis.

The Service List Registry does not act as a regulator, a market gatekeeper, or a commercial intermediary for media distribution. Its role is to provide shared service discovery infrastructure. It does not prescribe user interface behaviour, commercial relationships between third parties, or media policies beyond those required for deterministic service discovery.

Governance is aligned with public interest policy to support regulatory frameworks for the prominence of services of public value.

Our policies are designed to be transparent, consistent, and auditable.

Principles

Governance is applied consistently across all participants in accordance with the principles of availability, neutrality, privacy, predictability, and optionality.

Availability

• The public platform and registry data are accessible on a non-exclusive basis.
• The discovery specification is openly implementable without prior authorisation.
• Governance does not restrict participation at the protocol or data level.

Neutrality

• The platform does not favour particular implementers or media providers.
• Discovery behaviour is deterministic and policy-based, not commercially driven.
• No preferential access is granted to data or technical capabilities.

Privacy

• The platform is designed to respect the privacy of individuals.
• Service discovery does not require user identification or persistent tracking.
• Operational data handling complies with applicable data protection obligations.

Predictability

• The discovery specification and protocol are formally documented and versioned.
• Any changes will be introduced through explicit version updates.
• Backward compatibility will be maintained wherever practicable.

Optionality

• Participation in conformance processes is entirely voluntary.
• Conformance does not confer platform control or constitute regulatory approval.
• Non-conformant implementations retain access to specifications and registry data.

Framework

Governance is supported through specific policies that define how risk, authority, compliance, and interoperability are handled within the Service List Registry.

• Risk — How the platform manages and mitigates risks associated with service discovery and data handling.

• Provenance — How the origin and jurisdictional authority of services are represented, including nationally designated and regulated service lists.

• Compliance — How the platform responds to lawful requests from competent authorities, including jurisdiction-specific restrictions and takedown processes.

• Conformance — How implementers may optionally demonstrate interoperable use of the Service List Registry platform.

Governance and operational policies are regularly reviewed to ensure they remain effective and appropriate. Any changes are introduced in a controlled, transparent manner, with documentation and versioning used to preserve predictability and long-term stability.