# UCE Framework Change Log

## November 8, 2026 - UCE search and discovery

- Led public page identity with UCE while retaining the Universal Creation Evidence expansion.
- Added a plain-language UCE introduction, homepage guide links, canonical URLs, and structured website, framework, publisher, page, and breadcrumb metadata.
- Added production redirects for www and explicit directory-index aliases, and included the introduction in the sitemap.
- Added an optional llms.txt reference guide; no ranking or AI citation guarantee is implied.
- Removed the blocking homepage loader and made animations optional for script failures and reduced-motion preferences.
- Framework requirements, legal policy provisions, and crawler access policy are unchanged.

## October 20, 2026 - Shared footer layout correction

- Placed the footer brand and navigation on separate rows so long link lists cannot squeeze the brand name into adjacent text.
- Kept the UCE symbol at a stable size and allowed navigation links to wrap between complete labels across desktop, tablet, and mobile widths.
- Corrected institutional notice text and link contrast on the light footer background.
- Updated the shared stylesheet version on all eight public pages so browsers request the corrected footer styles.

## October 20, 2026 - Implementation-status wording clarification

- Acknowledged live UCE Evidence Lens browser checks, private local-file comparison, public demonstration artifacts, unsigned dated inspection reports, and eight read-only WebMCP tools in the framework overview and Appendix C.
- Documented the reviewed Extended 1.1.0 and limited Standard 1.0.0 verification scope. Hybrid 2.x records remain readable without a released independent hash/signature verification claim.
- Narrowed the future verifier milestone to completion of a versioned standalone/offline provider-independent package, deterministic vectors, full public-key history/revocation records, and documented outside reproduction. An independent security audit is not claimed.
- Clarified that the privacy page describes an internal repository review rather than independent audit assurance.
- These are informative implementation-status clarifications. The normative v1.0 requirements remain unchanged. The existing downloadable PDF is an earlier edition and does not include this clarification; the updated HTML and this change record provide the current implementation-status wording.

## Unreleased - WIPO-facing institutional-readiness review

- Clarified that UCE is a public-draft, implementation-independent framework and CbyUCE is the separate live implementation and current reference architecture.
- Added consistent WIPO and national-office non-affiliation language and an official national-office directory link.
- Distinguished technical verification results, recorded assertions, official registration, and legal conclusions.
- Aligned chronology terminology with the current CbyUCE implementation: Platform-Recorded Upload Date, separate file and manifest Arweave block dates, and the derived Complete UCE Record Date when both dates are available.
- Added truthful verification/conformance and governance status pages.
- Updated Website Terms and Privacy Policy to match the static framework Site.
- Adopted CC BY 4.0 for the specification and related framework documentation, with patent rights, trademarks, mark assets, software, legal policies, Site design, and third-party materials excluded.
- Identified 5 Race Street LLC, operating under the alternate name Copyright by UCE, as the present Site operator and organizational maintainer.
- Documented DreamHost hosting, routine network-data handling, and the Site's external resources.
- Limited present-tense verification claims to the artifacts and hosted CbyUCE route currently available while the provider-independent package remains unpublished.
- Added an interim UCE mark eligibility rule, a public case-handling policy, and a corrected downloadable mark pack.
- Added DreamHost deployment controls, a sitemap, and crawler guidance.
- Added an informative Appendix C crosswalk to the current representative CbyUCE record, including exact production field paths, separate file and manifest transactions, observed verification scope, chronology availability, and hosted-versus-provider-independent limitations.
- Clarified that the Appendix A reference structure is not an export or formal conformance map of the current CbyUCE production schema.
- Scoped the public `VERIFIED` terminology to checks actually reported as performed and replaced unqualified provider-independence language with `designed for independent verification` where current publication status requires it.

## 1.0 Public Draft - May 2026

- Published the initial UCE Evidentiary Standards & Verification Framework v1.0 Public Draft.