Pathway E of 5
Real-World Applications
What does persistent identity look like for farms, facilities, watersheds, and outcomes?
One referent across many organizational systems, governance that changes while identity does not, and evidence that keeps its source.
Steps
Viewgraph
One referent across many systems
How one real-world resource keeps one RID while a cooperative, a certifier, a buyer, and a watershed council each keep their own records, identifiers, and governance.
Journal
Why Persistent Identity Matters
Every system that touches a farm, a mill, or a watershed keeps its own record, and none of them can say with certainty that the others mean the same thing. This Journal explains why that is a structural problem, and how a permanent identifier separated from every description of the resource addresses it.
Fieldnote
Why identity is not ownership
Why RSM ID keeps issuance authority, legal ownership, custody, and stewardship as separate relationships — and what would break if it did not.
Fieldnote
Why semantic equivalence is not identity equality
Why RSM ID never merges identities on similarity, sameAs claims, or shared source files — and what an authorized equivalence decision needs instead.
Page · on this site
For organizations
How a network, a cooperative, or an institution takes part: the five roles, and what each does not confer.
Demonstration · on this site
A watershed across jurisdictions
Resolve the Document 08 watershed example: one RID while boundaries, bioregions, and stewards change.