CDG-SPEC-001: Certified Data Governance
Travis L. Guckert
LeMay Publishing
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CDG-SPEC-001: Certified Data Governance
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Published by LeMay Publishing. 15,703 words across 173 chapters.
About This Publication
Specification for certified data governance, provenance tracking, and deterministic data validation.
Published by LeMay Publishing, a division of LeMay. Massachusetts.
ISBN: 979-8-0000-5007-1
Chapters
1CDG-SPEC-001
2Certified Data Governance
3Specification for Certified Data Governance, Provenance Tracking, and Deterministic Data Validation
4NOTICE AND DISCLAIMER
5DOCUMENT HISTORY
6TABLE OF CONTENTS
7LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
8FOREWORD
9PREFACE
10CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS SPECIFICATION
11CHAPTER 1 — SCOPE AND PURPOSE
121.1 Scope
131.2 Purpose
141.3 Intended Audience
151.4 Relationship to Other Standards
161.5 Normative and Informative References
171.5.1 Normative References
181.5.2 Informative References
19CHAPTER 2 — DEFINITIONS, ACRONYMS, AND TERMINOLOGY
202.1 Defined Terms
212.2 Acronyms and Abbreviations
222.3 Notational Conventions
23CHAPTER 3 — ARCHITECTURE AND CONCEPTUAL MODEL
243.1 Governing Principles
253.2 Conceptual Architecture
263.3 The Governance Domain Model
273.4 Trust Boundaries and Classification Zones
283.5 Data Lifecycle Phases
29CHAPTER 4 — DATA ASSET REGISTRATION AND IDENTIFICATION
304.1 Universal Data Asset Identifiers
314.1.1 UDAI Structure
324.1.2 UDAI Immutability
334.1.3 UDAI Resolution
344.2 Asset Registration Protocol
354.2.1 Registration Request
364.2.2 Registration Processing
374.2.3 Registration Acknowledgment
384.3 Schema Binding and Version Control
394.3.1 Schema Registry
404.3.2 Schema Binding
414.3.3 Schema Evolution
424.4 Metadata Envelope Specification
434.4.1 Envelope Structure
444.4.2 Extension Mechanism
454.4.3 Envelope Integrity
464.5 Asset Deprecation and Tombstoning
474.5.1 Deprecation
484.5.2 Tombstoning
49CHAPTER 5 — PROVENANCE TRACKING
505.1 Provenance Model
515.2 Lineage Graph Specification
525.2.1 Graph Structure
535.2.2 Graph Properties
545.2.3 Graph Serialization
555.3 Transformation Records
565.3.1 Transformation Record Structure
575.3.2 Transformation Specificity Requirements
585.4 Custody Chain Requirements
595.4.1 Custody Transfer Records
605.4.2 Custody Chain Integrity
615.4.3 Custody Verification
625.5 Provenance Serialization Format
635.5.1 Canonical Format
645.5.2 Ordering
655.5.3 Completeness
665.6 Temporal Provenance and Bitemporal Records
675.6.1 Bitemporal Model
685.6.2 Temporal Query Requirements
69CHAPTER 6 — DETERMINISTIC DATA VALIDATION
706.1 Validation Philosophy and Requirements
716.2 Validation Rule Taxonomy
726.3 The CDG Validation Engine Specification
736.3.1 Engine Requirements
746.3.2 Validation Execution Protocol
756.4 Determinism Guarantees
766.4.1 Determinism Classification
776.4.2 Determinism Verification
786.5 Validation Artifact Format
796.6 Cross-Platform Reproducibility Requirements
80CHAPTER 7 — CERTIFICATION FRAMEWORK
817.1 Certification Levels
827.2 Certification Issuance Protocol
837.2.1 Certification Request
847.2.2 Certification Evaluation
857.2.3 Certification Issuance
867.3 Certificate Structure and Encoding
877.3.1 Certificate Validity Period
887.3.2 Certificate Conditions
897.4 Certification Renewal and Revocation
907.4.1 Renewal
917.4.2 Revocation
927.4.3 Revocation Distribution
937.5 Certification Authority Requirements
947.5.1 CA Registration
957.5.2 CA Trust Hierarchy
967.5.3 Inter-Domain CA Recognition
97CHAPTER 8 — GOVERNANCE POLICY EXPRESSION LANGUAGE
988.1 Language Design Rationale
998.2 Syntax Specification
1008.2.1 GPL Expression Syntax
1018.3 Semantic Model
1028.3.1 Evaluation Context
1038.3.2 Type System
1048.3.3 Null Handling
1058.4 Policy Composition and Inheritance
1068.4.1 Composition
1078.4.2 Inheritance
1088.5 Conflict Resolution Rules
109CHAPTER 9 — TRANSPORT AND INTERCHANGE FORMAT
1109.1 Canonical Serialization
1119.2 CDG Envelope Format
1129.3 Compression and Encoding Requirements
1139.4 Interchange Protocol
1149.4.1 Transport Independence
1159.4.2 Interchange Sequence
1169.4.3 Error Handling
1179.5 Error Handling and Recovery
1189.5.1 Error Classification
1199.5.2 Recovery Protocol
120CHAPTER 10 — SECURITY AND INTEGRITY
12110.1 Cryptographic Requirements
12210.2 Digital Signature Specification
12310.2.1 Signature Format
12410.2.2 Signing Protocol
12510.2.3 Verification Protocol
12610.3 Hash Chain Integrity Model
12710.3.1 Hash Chain Structure
12810.3.2 Hash Chain Verification
12910.3.3 Cross-Asset Hash Trees
13010.4 Access Control Model
13110.4.1 Access Control Principles
13210.4.2 Governance Roles
13310.5 Audit Trail Requirements
13410.5.1 Audit Events
13510.5.2 Audit Record Structure
13610.5.3 Audit Retention
137CHAPTER 11 — COMPLIANCE AND CONFORMANCE
13811.1 Conformance Levels
13911.2 Conformance Testing Procedures
14011.2.1 CDG Conformance Test Kit
14111.2.2 Determinism Verification Suite
14211.2.3 Test Execution
14311.3 Self-Certification Requirements
14411.4 Third-Party Certification
14511.5 Conformance Marks and Labeling
146CHAPTER 12 — IMPLEMENTATION GUIDANCE
14712.1 Reference Architecture
14812.2 Deployment Topologies
14912.3 Migration from Legacy Governance Systems
15012.4 Performance Considerations
15112.5 Interoperability with Existing Standards
152APPENDIX A — CDG SCHEMA DEFINITIONS (NORMATIVE)
153A.1 UDAI Schema
154A.2 Metadata Envelope Schema
155A.3 Validation Artifact Schema
156A.4 Certificate Schema
157APPENDIX B — PROVENANCE SERIALIZATION EXAMPLES (INFORMATIVE)
158B.1 Simple Asset Registration Provenance
159B.2 Derived Asset Provenance
160APPENDIX C — VALIDATION RULE EXAMPLES (INFORMATIVE)
161C.1 Structural Validation: Required Fields
162C.2 Syntactic Validation: Email Format
163C.3 Semantic Validation: Age Range
164C.4 Referential Validation: Foreign Key
165C.5 Temporal Validation: Ordering
166APPENDIX D — CERTIFICATE ENCODING EXAMPLES (INFORMATIVE)
167D.1 Level 1 Certificate
168D.2 Level 3 Certificate
169APPENDIX E — GOVERNANCE POLICY LANGUAGE GRAMMAR (NORMATIVE)
170E.1 Operator Arity
171E.2 Duration Literal Format
172BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES
173INDEX OF DEFINED TERMS