cispec

org.cispec.owner

core key required: any CI

org.cispec.owner identifies the individual or role accountable for a Change Item. It is the single key for ownership and responsibility; role-qualified ownership (a shift supervisor, an approving authority, an incident commander) is expressed as a structured value on this key, not as a separate term.

Value format

An identity-contact value: an email address, a key fingerprint, or a fingerprint-qualified address, optionally prefixed with a role qualifier separated by a colon.

org.cispec.owner=[email protected]
org.cispec.owner=[email protected]
org.cispec.owner=shift-supervisor:[email protected]

A bare identity value (no role qualifier) is read as the general accountable owner. A role-qualified value narrows that accountability to a specific function or context, and a single Change Item MAY carry more than one org.cispec.owner label if more than one role applies (for example, a technical owner and a business owner with distinct identities).

Conformance

org.cispec.owner is REQUIRED for Declared conformance on any Change Item, regardless of type.

Resolution and relation

Every Change Item that lists a given identity as owner forms an edge in the namespace’s knowledge graph — “everything [email protected] owns” is a real, expected query. This specification does not define how that query is answered. An organisation’s own CMDB, ERP, or directory service is responsible for traversal; this site only defines what the owner value means once it is read.

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