{"standard":{"name":"Reader Evaluation of Authenticity & Legitimacy","shortName":"R-EAL","version":"1.0","status":"published","statusLabel":"Open standard · Published 5 September 2026 · International Day of Charity","category":"Open standard for crowdsourced content credibility","published":"2026-09-05T00:00:00.000Z","canonicalUrl":"https://r-eal.org","steward":"Open Conformance Foundation (neutral steward, being established); drafted by Society OS Pty Ltd as current owner","tagline":"Rigorous, Resilient, Repeatable, Revealing — so a verdict on what is real can itself be trusted.","principle":"A credibility verdict is only worth trusting if the way it was reached is itself rigorous, resistant to gaming, reproducible, and legible at a glance."},"license":{"spec":{"id":"CC-BY-4.0","name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"\"Reader Evaluation of Authenticity & Legitimacy (R-EAL) 1.0\" by Society OS, licensed under CC BY 4.0."},"patents":{"note":"R-EAL 1.0 is published under the same irrevocable, royalty-free, worldwide patent non-assertion pledge as F-ACT. The text is offered under CC BY 4.0. Both rights are settled in the adopter’s favour.","url":"https://openconformance.org/occ/pledge"}},"movements":[{"id":"rigorous","name":"Rigorous","question":"Was the verdict reached by a sound, weighted method — not a raw popularity count?","requirement":"The credential names its aggregation method and marks the verdict as agreement-weighted."},{"id":"resilient","name":"Resilient","question":"Can the verdict withstand sockpuppets, brigading and coordinated manipulation?","requirement":"Sybil resistance and manipulation resistance are asserted as active controls."},{"id":"repeatable","name":"Repeatable","question":"Given the same inputs, would anyone deriving the verdict again get the same result — and can they carry the credential with them?","requirement":"The method is deterministic, the inputs are hashed, and the credential is portable."},{"id":"revealing","name":"Revealing","question":"Can a reader see the verdict at a glance and then open the full reasoning behind it?","requirement":"A glanceable verdict is offered alongside an endpoint that explains how it was reached."}],"conformanceTiers":[{"code":"E1","name":"Declared","kind":"verified","summary":"The four movements are answerable from the credential itself — the method, the resistance controls, the deterministic inputs and the glanceable verdict are all present."},{"code":"E2","name":"Corroborated","kind":"declared","summary":"Declared only. The credential reports a reader sample across represented cohorts with cross-cohort agreement — but a document cannot prove the sample was genuine or independent."},{"code":"E3","name":"Provable","kind":"declared","summary":"Declared only. The credential points at tamper-evident evidence and a re-derivation endpoint — real proof means fetching that evidence and recomputing the verdict."}],"meta":{"format":"application/json","formatsAvailable":{"html":"https://r-eal.org/r-eal","json":"https://r-eal.org/r-eal/spec.json","text":"https://r-eal.org/r-eal/spec.txt"},"referenceKit":"https://r-eal.org/r-eal/reference","testVectors":"https://r-eal.org/r-eal/test-vectors","note":"This is a published open standard (v1.0). Later revisions will be versioned and published under the same royalty-free pledge.","generated":"2026-09-05T00:00:00.000Z"}}