Governance without overreach.
The discipline of the registry is in what it refuses to do. Many adjacent capabilities are reasonable; each one would make the registry a different kind of platform.
Charter
What it is
- A locally-governed catalogue of sovereign AI resources.
- Stable identifiers under air://.
- Three independent governance signals: provider-verified, sovereignty-reviewed, official-resource.
- An open, append-only audit log.
What it is not
- A runtime, gateway or proxy.
- A certification authority. (Listing ≠ endorsement.)
- A marketplace or payment layer.
- A hosting provider for any AI resource.
Review board
Reviewers apply the published sovereignty rubric to elevate or reject submissions. The board is composed of named reviewers drawn from the operator, sector experts and (where applicable) official authorities. Decisions are public; reviewer notes appear on the resource detail page; every decision is timestamped against the rubric version applied at the time.
Reviewers do not act on resources from their own organisation. Conflicts of interest are recorded under disclosure.
Appeals
If a resource was rejected, deprecated or removed and the provider believes the decision was wrong, the appeal path is:
- Submit an appeal through the contact form with the AIR-ID and a short statement of why the original decision should be re-examined.
- The operator routes the appeal to a reviewer who was not involved in the original decision.
- The reviewer publishes a re-examination outcome with reasoning. The outcome is appended to the audit log alongside the original decision.
Appeals are not a route to bypass the sovereignty rubric; they are a route to test that it was applied correctly.
Disclosure
The operator (Mauritius Telecom for www.airegistry.mu) commits to disclose:
- Funding and operating sponsors of the registry instance.
- Any resources or providers in which the operator has an ownership or hosting relationship.
- Reviewer roster and any standing conflicts of interest declared by individual reviewers.
- Material changes to the rubric, schema or APIs.
All disclosure events are recorded in the audit log.
Public log
Every state-changing action - AIR-ID issuance, sovereignty review, official-resource endorsement, lifecycle transition - is recorded in an append-only audit log. The log behind a removed resource is preserved indefinitely so the governance trail remains traceable.