The Service List Registry is designed to reduce systemic and operational risk associated with service discovery across regulated media environments.
Risk in service discovery arises less from technology alone than from fragmented responsibility, inconsistent interpretation, and regulatory uncertainty across markets. The Service List Registry addresses these risks through shared infrastructure, consistent governance, and proportionate operational controls.
The purpose of the risk management approach is to reduce the coordination, compliance, and responsibility risk for service providers, implementers, and regulators, while preserving openness and neutrality.
By providing a shared discovery layer, the Service List Registry helps avoid duplication of effort and inconsistent handling of obligations that would otherwise be borne independently by multiple parties.
Common sources of risk in service discovery include divergent interpretations of regulatory requirements, inconsistent handling of takedown or restriction requests, unclear provenance of service lists, and lack of auditability across fragmented endpoints.
A shared discovery registry enables coordination of discovery behaviour across markets and devices, reducing the likelihood of conflicting interpretations or divergent outcomes.
Coordination does not centralise policy decision-making. It provides a predictable, transparent, and auditable framework within which regulatory intent and jurisdictional requirements can be represented consistently.
For media service providers, the platform reduces exposure to inconsistent discovery treatment across devices and markets.
By aligning discovery with published provenance and compliance principles, the Service List Registry helps providers engage with regulatory frameworks through a consistent and coherent mechanism.
For implementers, independently interpreting and applying jurisdiction-specific regulatory requirements across multiple markets can be costly and error-prone.
By centralising discovery and compliance handling at the registry level, the platform avoids ambiguity, lowers implementation risk, and reduces maintenance burden.
The Service List Registry mitigates information technology risk through shared responsibility with established cloud infrastructure providers that actively address security, availability, resilience, and operational continuity.
The platform is operated using industry-standard practices for reliability and scalability, allowing risks associated with infrastructure operation to be managed at appropriate scale.
Platform operation is underpinned by documented policies and procedures designed to support safe and predictable change.
These include role-based access control, controlled change management, and auditability of operational actions, consistent with the platform’s governance principles.
The Service List Registry does not eliminate all risk and does not replace the legal, regulatory, or commercial responsibilities of participating parties.
Its role is to reduce systemic risk arising from fragmentation and inconsistency, while enabling participants to operate within their own legal and regulatory obligations.