Context
The definition draft (terms, requirements with M/A/H marks, crosswalk to the AI Act, DORA, GDPR and NIST) was written for a standards committee. On 2026-10-04 the plan was committee first: comment on ISO/IEC DIS 23282 through the national body, seek a seat in the AI mirror committee, and publish the definition after the committee route had seen it. The draft was already in use on this site: the conformity gate runs its mechanical requirements and the self-assessment scores the author's setup against it, so the requirement texts were public in /conformity/requirements.json without the document around them.
Decision
Publish the draft now as a reference page, /continuous-conformity/, labelled a working draft, not a standard, not a certification scheme, with version, date, limits and a way to comment by clause number. Stefan Coetzee, 2026-10-09: "add it now, i'd rather build it and have it out in public as reference". The committee route stays open: the DIS 23282 comments (deadline 2026-11-25) cite the public draft instead of waiting for it.
Consequences
The document can be cited, linked from the gate, the self-assessment and the docs, and read by models through llms.txt. Comments arrive in public before any committee review, and the draft carries one author's view until outside raters or a committee change it. Changes are versioned on the page; the vault source stays the single source of truth and the page is rebuilt from it (articles/continuous-conformity-definition/build.py in the author's vault). See Conformity gate and Conformity self-assessment, run 1.