PAVA public information
A public profile of alignment, responsibility, and limits.
Read PAVA’s bounded provenance alignment with elements of IEEE 2890-2025, its Sovereign Relational Architecture context, and its responsibility limits.
Provisioned-user access — Open
IEEE 2890-2025
PAVA’s provenance design is aligned with elements of IEEE 2890-2025, the IEEE Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples’ Data. IEEE 2890-2025 is a recommended practice, not a product-certification program. IEEE has not certified, approved, or endorsed PAVA.
Implementation profile
Reviewed October 17, 2026 against the application as hosted on that date. This area-level profile does not convert alignment with a recommended practice into certification or full implementation.
- Public claims and versioned boundaries: Published. This public profile distinguishes supported work, separately provisioned access, held work, future direction, and matters outside software authority.
- Source provenance and review records: Supported. Provisioned institutional workspaces can preserve source identity, uncertainty, and review evidence; this public site is informational only.
- Contested and held states: Supported in named draft paths. In supported notice drafts, a fact recorded as contested, withheld or refused blocks the required output until it is resolved. The software records that state; it cannot resolve Nation-side disagreement into consent.
- Nation-issued conditions: Authority external. Institutional users and software cannot create, validate, or convert Nation authority.
- Authenticated access and automated operations: Separately controlled. No authenticated workspace, submission path, or background operation is exposed at pava.tools.
- NAAGU Nation-side infrastructure: Future direction. The direction is not built, available, activated, or Nation-approved.
Sovereign Relational Architecture
PAVA is a bounded institutional implementation informed by Sovereign Relational Architecture (SRA), the Indigenous-authored intellectual architecture developed by Darren Lone Fight. SRA is context for this implementation, not a certification, a universal Indigenous governance model, or a claim that PAVA contains sovereignty.
Persistence Conditions: Relational Ontology and the Infrastructure of Refusal (the SRA paper) Explore the interactive reference model
CARE principles
The CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance provide neighboring scholarship and governance context: collective benefit, authority to control, responsibility, and ethics. PAVA cites CARE without claiming endorsement.
What remains outside the software
PAVA supports records and review. It does not determine cultural affiliation, provide legal advice, replace consultation, or authorize filing or repatriation. PAVA does not submit or send filings.