VALIDOS® Complete Standards & Modules Index

Validation Governance Architecture — Validation Governance Layer

Official Validation Governance Architecture Map for AI Systems,
Autonomous Systems, Digital Assets, Organizations, Critical
Infrastructure, Decision Systems, Scientific Claims, Operational
Processes, and Future Validation Environments

This document serves as the official OOF® validation governance
architecture map and structural index used for validation governance
design, validation governance navigation, validation governance
classification, validation diagnostics, validation architecture
development, validation governance assessment, validation lifecycle
governance, validation reliance governance, revalidation governance,
and validation interoperability across AI systems, autonomous
systems, organizations, digital assets, critical infrastructure,
decision environments, scientific and technical systems, operational
processes, and future validation environments.

VALIDOS® consists of 10 Parent Standards and 50 Core Modules.

Additional standards and modules may be added when new governable
validation spaces are identified. However, the standards and modules
listed below form the core structural backbone of VALIDOS®.

1. Validation Object Standard (VOBS)

Governed Space: Validation Object

Core Question: What exactly is being validated, how must the
Validation Object be identified and bounded, and how can its
version, relationships, and fitness for validation remain governed
throughout the validation lifecycle?

Modules:

VOIM — Validation Object Identification Module
VOBM — Validation Object Boundary Module
VOVM — Validation Object Version Module
VORM — Validation Object Relationship Module
VOFM — Validation Object Fitness Module

2. Validation Purpose & Scope Standard (VPSS)

Governed Space: Validation Purpose & Scope

Core Question: Why is validation being performed, what must it
cover, at what Validation Depth must it operate, where is it
applicable, and which limitations must remain explicitly governed?

Modules:

VPIM — Validation Purpose Identification Module
VSCDM — Validation Scope Definition Module
VDCM — Validation Depth Calibration Module
VAMM — Validation Applicability Mapping Module
VLGM — Validation Limitation Governance Module

3. Validation Criteria Standard (VCRS)

Governed Space: Validation Criteria

Core Question: Against which explicit, applicable, sufficiently
formulated, threshold-bounded, and internally coherent criteria must
the Validation Object be evaluated?

Modules:

VRDM — Validation Requirement Derivation Module
VCFM — Validation Criterion Formulation Module
VTCM — Validation Threshold Calibration Module
VARCM — Validation Acceptance & Rejection Conditions Module
VCCM — Validation Criteria Coherence Module

4. Validation Method Standard (VMTS)

Governed Space: Validation Method

Core Question: Which validation method or combination of methods is
eligible and suitable for the Validation Object, purpose, scope,
criteria, consequence, and required Validation Depth, and when is
that method ready for governed execution?

Modules:

VMEM — Validation Method Eligibility Module
VMSM — Validation Method Suitability Module
VMCM — Validation Method Configuration Module
VMIM — Validation Method Integration Module
VMRM — Validation Method Readiness Module

5. Validation Evidence Fitness Standard (VEFS)

Governed Space: Validation Evidence Fitness

Core Question: Is the available validation evidence sufficiently
relevant, applicable, comprehensive, adequate, and fit to support
the intended validation determination?

Modules:

VERM — Validation Evidence Relevance Module
VEAM — Validation Evidence Applicability Module
VECM — Validation Evidence Coverage Module
VEADM — Validation Evidence Adequacy Module
VEFDM — Validation Evidence Fitness Determination Module

6. Validation Source Reliability Standard (VSRS)

Governed Space: Validation Source Reliability

Core Question: Are the sources producing or supporting validation
evidence sufficiently identifiable, attributable,
provenance-grounded, capable, independent where necessary, and
reliable for the intended validation purpose?

Modules:

VSIAM — Validation Source Identity & Attribution Module
VSPLM — Validation Source Provenance & Lineage Module
VSCCM — Validation Source Capability & Competence Module
VSICM — Validation Source Independence & Conflict Module
VSRDM — Validation Source Reliability Determination Module

7. Validation Execution Standard (VEXS)

Governed Space: Validation Execution

Core Question: How must an authorized and ready validation method be
instantiated, controlled, observed, traced, protected against
unmanaged deviations and exceptions, and completed in conformity
with its governed validation basis?

Modules:

VEBAM — Validation Execution Basis & Authorization Module
VEICM — Validation Execution Instantiation & Control Module
VEOTM — Validation Execution Observation & Traceability Module
VEDEGM — Validation Execution Deviation & Exception Governance Module
VECCM — Validation Execution Completeness & Conformity Module

8. Validation Determination Standard (VDTS)

Governed Space: Validation Determination

Core Question: What determination does the complete governed
validation record legitimately support, how must individual
criterion results be qualified and integrated, and how must
conflict, uncertainty, partial satisfaction, and negative findings
remain reflected in the overall determination?

Modules:

VDBRQM — Validation Determination Basis & Result Qualification Module
VCDM — Validation Criterion Determination Module
VDCUGM — Validation Determination Conflict & Uncertainty Governance Module
VCCIM — Validation Cross-Criterion Integration Module
OVDM — Overall Validation Determination Module

9. Validation State Governance Standard (VSGS)

Governed Space: Validation State Governance

Core Question: What Validation State may legitimately be assigned to
the Validation Object, under which conditions does that state apply,
how must material change affect it, and how must transitions,
revalidation triggers, and lifecycle continuity remain governed?

Modules:

VSAEM — Validation State Assignment & Eligibility Module
VSCAM — Validation State Conditions & Applicability Module
VMCSMM — Validation Material Change & State Monitoring Module
VSTRM — Validation State Transition & Revalidation Trigger Module
VSCLRM — Validation State Continuity & Lifecycle Record Module

10. Validation Reliance & Revalidation Standard (VRRS)

Governed Space: Validation Reliance & Revalidation

Core Question: Who or what may legitimately rely upon the current
Validation State, for which purpose, scope, conditions,
authorization, consequence, and duration, and how must changed
validation reality trigger bounded revalidation, renewal,
restriction, suspension, or withdrawal of reliance?

Modules:

VRESM — Validation Reliance Eligibility & Sufficiency Module
VRCAOCM — Validation Reliance Conditions, Authorization & Operational Control Module
VRMDCPM — Validation Reliance Monitoring, Dependency & Change Propagation Module
RSDVRM — Revalidation Scope, Delta & Validation Reuse Module
RERRCM — Revalidation Execution, Renewal & Reliance Continuity Module

VALIDOS® Architecture Summary

Parent Standards: 10 Core Modules: 50

Core Governed Validation Spaces

Validation Object
Validation Purpose & Scope
Validation Criteria
Validation Method
Validation Evidence Fitness
Validation Source Reliability
Validation Execution
Validation Determination
Validation State Governance
Validation Reliance & Revalidation

Core Questions Map

VOBS → What exactly is being validated, how must the Validation
Object be identified and bounded, and how can its version,
relationships, and fitness for validation remain governed throughout
the validation lifecycle?

VPSS → Why is validation being performed, what must it cover, at
what Validation Depth must it operate, where is it applicable, and
which limitations must remain explicitly governed?

VCRS → Against which explicit, applicable, sufficiently formulated,
threshold-bounded, and internally coherent criteria must the
Validation Object be evaluated?

VMTS → Which validation method or combination of methods is eligible
and suitable for the Validation Object, purpose, scope, criteria,
consequence, and required Validation Depth, and when is that method
ready for governed execution?

VEFS → Is the available validation evidence sufficiently relevant,
applicable, comprehensive, adequate, and fit to support the intended
validation determination?

VSRS → Are the sources producing or supporting validation evidence
sufficiently identifiable, attributable, provenance-grounded,
capable, independent where necessary, and reliable for the intended
validation purpose?

VEXS → How must an authorized and ready validation method be
instantiated, controlled, observed, traced, protected against
unmanaged deviations and exceptions, and completed in conformity
with its governed validation basis?

VDTS → What determination does the complete governed validation
record legitimately support, how must individual criterion results
be qualified and integrated, and how must conflict, uncertainty,
partial satisfaction, and negative findings remain reflected in the
overall determination?

VSGS → What Validation State may legitimately be assigned to the
Validation Object, under which conditions does that state apply, how
must material change affect it, and how must transitions,
revalidation triggers, and lifecycle continuity remain governed?

VRRS → Who or what may legitimately rely upon the current Validation
State, for which purpose, scope, conditions, authorization,
consequence, and duration, and how must changed validation reality
trigger bounded revalidation, renewal, restriction, suspension, or
withdrawal of reliance?

Architectural Position

VALIDOS® governs the complete validation governance lifecycle.

The architecture progresses:

Validation Object → Validation Purpose & Scope → Validation Criteria
→ Validation Method → Validation Evidence Fitness → Validation
Source Reliability → Validation Execution → Validation Determination
→ Validation State → Validation Reliance & Revalidation

Together these standards govern what is being validated, why and
within which boundaries validation occurs, against which governed
criteria the Validation Object is evaluated, which methods may
legitimately perform that validation, what evidence is fit for the
intended validation purpose, whether the sources supporting that
evidence are sufficiently reliable, how validation is operationally
executed, what determination the complete governed validation record
supports, what Validation State may consequently exist, who or what
may legitimately rely upon that state, and when changed validation
reality requires revalidation.

VALIDOS® therefore does not terminate when a Validation
Determination is issued or a Validation State is assigned.

Its lifecycle becomes recursive when a Validation State enters
operational reliance:

Validation Object → Purpose & Scope → Criteria → Method → Evidence
Fitness → Source Reliability → Execution → Determination →
Validation State → Reliance → Monitoring → Material Change →
Revalidation Trigger → Revalidation Scope & Delta → Validation Reuse
→ Revalidation Execution → New Determination → New Validation State
→ Renewed, Restricted, Suspended, or Withdrawn Reliance

This recursive structure allows validation governance to remain
responsive to changes in the Validation Object, validation purpose,
scope, criteria, methods, evidence, sources, execution conditions,
operational reality, dependencies, Validation State conditions, and
intended reliance throughout the complete operational lifecycle.

Cross-Architecture Boundary

VALIDOS® ↔ GOA® GOA® governs the architecture and constitutional
conditions of governance itself. VALIDOS® governs the methodological
lifecycle through which Validation Objects acquire, maintain,
change, or lose governed validation status.

VALIDOS® ↔ ORA® ORA® governs what is actually occurring in
Operational Reality. VALIDOS® governs whether a defined Validation
Object can legitimately support a validation determination under
governed validation conditions.

VALIDOS® ↔ OBIDENITY® OBIDENITY® governs origin, identity,
ownership, authority, permission, provenance, transfer, and
continuity. VALIDOS® governs validation-specific use of identified
Validation Objects, sources, actors, evidence references, and
governed validation records.

VALIDOS® ↔ INTEGROS® INTEGROS® governs integrity across governed
objects, information, states, processes, and records. VALIDOS®
governs whether the complete validation basis legitimately supports
a Validation Determination, Validation State, and bounded reliance.

VALIDOS® ↔ ADIT® ADIT® governs evidential observation, preservation,
verification, traceability, and auditability of what occurred.
VALIDOS® governs the fitness and governed use of evidence within the
validation lifecycle and the determination that the complete
validation basis may support.

VALIDOS® ↔ AGA® AGA® governs authority, responsibility,
accountability, attribution, escalation, and decision relationships.
VALIDOS® governs validation methodology, execution, determination,
state, reliance, and revalidation conditions without absorbing
general accountability governance.

VALIDOS® ↔ SIMULOS® SIMULOS® governs the methodological conditions
under which simulation and simulation-derived outputs acquire
bounded meaning and evidential relevance. VALIDOS® governs whether
simulation-derived evidence, together with the complete validation
basis, sufficiently supports a Validation Determination and
intended reliance.

VALIDOS® ↔ AIG® / ASGA® AIG® and ASGA® govern the behavior,
authority, autonomy, constraints, permissions, and operation of
actual AI and autonomous systems. VALIDOS® may validate those
systems, their states, claims, capabilities, outputs, or operational
conditions without assuming governance of their actual behavior or
autonomous authority.

VALIDOS® ↔ CLIA® / MGIA® CLIA® and MGIA® govern cognition and memory
where reasoning, interpretation, retained information, or historical
continuity materially influence governed systems. VALIDOS® governs
the validation lifecycle in which such cognition or memory may
constitute part of the Validation Object, method, evidence,
execution context, or reliance basis.

Foundational Architecture Distinctions

Validation Object ≠ Validation Claim

Validation Object Identity ≠ Validation Object Validity

Validation Purpose ≠ Validation Outcome

Validation Scope ≠ Universal Applicability

Validation Depth ≠ Evidence Volume

Requirement ≠ Validation Criterion

Criterion ≠ Acceptance Threshold

Validation Method Eligibility ≠ Validation Method Suitability

Validation Method Readiness ≠ Validation Execution

Available Evidence ≠ Fit Validation Evidence

Evidence Relevance ≠ Evidence Adequacy

Evidence Volume ≠ Evidence Coverage

Evidence Fitness ≠ Source Reliability

Source Identity ≠ Source Reliability

Source Capability ≠ Source Independence

Validation Execution ≠ Validation Determination

Execution Completion ≠ Successful Validation

Criterion Determination ≠ Overall Validation Determination

Uncertainty ≠ Automatic Validation Failure

Validation Determination ≠ Validation State

Validation State ≠ Permanent Validity

Validation State Applicability ≠ Universal Reliance

Validation State ≠ Reliance Authorization

Reliance Eligibility ≠ Unlimited Reliance

Past Validation ≠ Continuing Validation

Material Change ≠ Automatic Invalidity

Revalidation ≠ Repetition of the Entire Original Validation

Validation Reuse ≠ Uncontrolled Inheritance of Previous Validation

Revalidation ≠ Failure of the Original Validation

Canonical Principle

VALIDOS® does not declare a Validation Object valid merely because
validation activity occurred. VALIDOS® governs the methodological
conditions under which a Validation Object is identified and
bounded, validation purpose and scope are established, criteria and
methods are governed, evidence fitness and source reliability are
determined, validation is operationally executed, a defensible
determination is formed, a bounded Validation State is assigned,
reliance remains controlled, and material change triggers
proportionate revalidation throughout the complete
validation lifecycle.

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