The Service List Registry applies compliance principles to ensure that it operates within applicable legal and regulatory frameworks, while preserving the neutrality and infrastructural role of the service discovery platform.
Compliance describes how the platform responds to lawful requests from competent authorities, how jurisdiction-specific requirements are respected, and how regulatory intent may be reflected in service discovery.
The purpose of compliance is to ensure that the Service List Registry operates in a manner that is compatible with applicable laws and regulatory frameworks, while avoiding discretionary, editorial, or commercial intervention in media markets.
Compliance reflects the operational responsibility of maintaining a shared discovery service within regulated media environments. While the technical act of publishing a service list is straightforward, operating discovery infrastructure that spans jurisdictions, markets, and regulatory regimes requires consistent governance, accountability, and procedural restraint.
Compliance mechanisms are designed to respect relevant jurisdictional authority, support lawful service discovery, and provide predictable handling of restrictions or obligations that arise from public policy.
Compliance applies to the handling of lawful requests, jurisdiction-specific constraints, and regulatory requirements that affect the discoverability or ordering of services within service lists. It does not involve monitoring media services for legality or adjudicating disputes between private parties.
The Service List Registry provides the discovery infrastructure and technical framework through which service lists may be published and discovered.
A shared discovery registry provides a stable coordination point for regulators, implementers, and list publishers. Fragmented or ad hoc publication of service lists across multiple endpoints can introduce ambiguity, inconsistent interpretation, and increased compliance risk for downstream systems.
In most cases, service lists are published and maintained by legally constituted organisations that are responsible for their contents and regulatory alignment. The Service List Registry provides the platform, interfaces, and discovery mechanisms that enable such publication.
Where appropriate, the Service List Registry may also host service lists directly. In all cases, compliance responsibility remains with the publishing entity and the applicable authority.
Compliance is always applied with reference to a defined jurisdiction or set of jurisdictions.
Where requirements differ between territories, the Service List Registry seeks to apply restrictions or obligations in a proportionate and jurisdiction-specific manner, without extending their effect beyond the scope required by the relevant authority.
By centralising discovery and compliance handling at the registry level, the platform reduces the need for implementers to interpret or respond independently to jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements.
In some markets, laws or regulatory frameworks establish requirements for the designation, prominence, or ordering of services of public value.
Such requirements may be expressed through designated service lists, ordering rules, or published principles issued by regulators or recognised industry bodies acting within a regulatory framework.
Where prominence requirements are explicit and attributable, the Service List Registry may reflect them through service list metadata or structure, without determining the substance of ordering decisions or substituting its own judgement.
The platform does not define prominence policy, select services of public value, or optimise ordering for commercial or editorial outcomes.
Compliance handling is documented and auditable. Where appropriate, aggregate information about compliance activity may be published to support transparency, subject to legal and confidentiality constraints.
Compliance processes are designed to be proportionate and narrowly applied.
The Service List Registry does not:
The Service List Registry responds to requests that are lawful, properly scoped, and attributable to a competent authority acting within its jurisdiction.
Requests may relate to restrictions on discoverability, ordering obligations, or other compliance-related matters arising from applicable law or regulation.
The platform does not adjudicate disputes between parties, interpret contested policy positions, or resolve disagreements over regulatory competence.
Where disagreements arise in connection with the operation of the platform, the Service List Registry seeks to support proportionate and efficient resolution, consistent with its neutral and infrastructural role.