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Covered organisations

Every organisation that holds or has held an Entitlement has one line here. An organisation that ticked “List our organisation's name publicly” at checkout is named; every other one is listed as Unlisted organisation. None is left off.

Companies that have bought licence credentials

The public payment total is not available yet. It will appear here and on the homepage as payment records are published.

How this total is counted

Each organisation is counted once across published Purpose Fee receipts, even when it has made more than one purchase. Free waivers and sample entries do not count. This is a total of companies that have paid over time, rather than a count of current subscriptions or Association members. Transfers to charities are recorded separately in the public ledger.

Sample data

This host's registry is the dev environment's test registry. Every organisation, coverage term and figure below is a dev test record, not a production one, and each repository's own page says whether the repository itself is real. A production build refuses this data outright rather than labelling it.

No organisation holds an Entitlement yet, so this list has no lines, the ledger has no fee rows, and the companies-covered counter is not published before launch.

The count, checked

This list has 0 lines, and three checks tie it to the signed records and the ledger. The site's build fails if any of them breaks, so an organisation cannot be left off without the numbers disagreeing.

  • The 0 lines and the 0 signed entitlement records that carry no Entitlement term add up to the 0 signed entitlement records published. On the live registry that total is also the companies-covered counter.
  • The 0 organisations holding a Project or Pass term are exactly the 0 company identifiers on the fee rows of the published ledger.
  • Every fee row names a term on this list, and every such term has its fee row.

A purchase refunded or voided in full keeps its line, marked as such, because its ledger rows stay published.

How to read a line

Name
The registered legal name, only if the organisation asked; otherwise Unlisted organisation.
Company identifier
The opaque identifier the ledger, the signed entitlement record and the coverage lookup use — the same on every public record.
Lane
Project or the Pass.
Status
As the signed entitlement record states it.
Term
The start and end dates of each Entitlement.
Certificate
The certificate identifier. An unlisted organisation's public certificate record shows its status only.

Unlisted is not anonymous

An unlisted organisation is not named on this list, in its signed entitlement record, on its certificate's public record or beside its ledger rows. It is not anonymous either:

  • Its company identifier, its lane, what its Entitlement covers, its term dates and its status are public.
  • The fee amount of each purchase is on the ledger, and against the published fee schedule an amount shows the lane and the revenue band.
  • A domain the organisation verifies resolves to its company identifier in the published domain index, because coverage must be answerable whether or not an organisation is named.
  • Anyone who already knows which organisation bought — its own staff, or the maintainers of the one repository a Project covers — can match a line to it.

Never published, listed or not: the contact person, the repositories a Pass holder named, and anything about the organisation beyond what is described above.

Proving a line is yours

An organisation proves which line is its own by showing its signed certificate — which carries its name and the same company identifier — to whoever it chooses. The certificate verifies against the published keys and the transparency log without asking the Association.

Asking to be listed, or unlisted

The choice is made at checkout, unticked by default. To change it later, ask through the contact route until the organisation dashboard offers the setting. A change applies to this list, the signed entitlement record, the certificate's public record and the ledger pages, because the ledger rows themselves never carry a name — only the company identifier. Copies others have already made of a published page or record stay as they were.

If an organisation's registered legal name is a person's name, as with a sole trader, listing publishes that name, and it is published only on that request.