What a registry must answer
For any candidate asset, the registry must answer: who controls it, what evidence supports it, which rights apply, what use cases depend on it, and what its measurement status is. Anything less is a catalog, not a registry.
Evidence taxonomy
Every record carries one of five evidence states - observed, derived, benchmarked, withheld, excluded - and a provenance chain that can be reconstructed without the original engineer in the room.
Passporting
A passport is the transferable surface the rest of the business consumes - internal product teams, auditors, insurers, and counterparties. It is what makes the asset usable beyond the team that produced it.
Questions buyers actually ask.
A catalog inventories tables and schemas. A registry tracks recognized assets with evidence, rights, and measurement status. The two complement each other; one does not replace the other.
No. KRYOS works on top of the cataloging, lineage, and governance tools already in place and adds the evidence, rights, and passporting layer.
Ownership is assigned per asset to a named business accountable party, with a data steward and a rights custodian recorded alongside.
Continuous for control and rights signals; quarterly for measurement; on event for impairment triggers.