Standards
urSynergy is a publisher of one standard and a compliant implementer of another. The two sit deliberately at different distances — an architectural discipline, not a branding choice.
USAT1024 — taxonomy
Citation HP-006: USAT1024 is published as an open standard, free with required citation. — professional credentials, identifiers, conditions, claims, organizations, and the relationships between them.
Seven canonical families organize the taxonomy. Each family is versioned independently against the same specification document; each family cross-references to established international taxonomies so existing systems can map their vocabularies without losing meaning on the transition.
The standard is free to use. Required attribution is the only constraint. It is not gated, it is not licensed commercially, and it does not require urSynergy platform adoption. Any record system, any platform, any integrator, and any AI agent operating on behalf of a human can implement USAT1024 without asking permission.
urSynergy is fully compliant with the AWDPS data protection standard, which is authored and maintained independently.
Why open standards
A record system that locks vocabulary inside itself cannot be an interoperability layer. An animal's record has to be reliably describable across every platform in their life; that requires a shared reference that any implementer can adopt, cite, and extend without negotiating commercial terms. urSynergy publishes the reference; other operators are welcome to implement it; everyone wins when the animal's identity travels coherently.