# RFCs

Proposals to change the Cookwala standard, following `GOVERNANCE.md`: a pull request, a
30-day public comment period, then a decision with written reasons. Safety-relevant RFCs
name a qualified reviewer before they are accepted.

| RFC | Title | Status | Comment period |
|---|---|---|---|
| [0001](0001-household-context-profile.md) | Household Context Profile | proposed | opens when the PR merges |
| [0002](0002-registry-and-directory.md) | Registry and Directory | proposed | |
| [0003](0003-humanitarian-0.2-surplus-to-plate.md) | Humanitarian Profile 0.2: surplus to plate | proposed | |
| [0004](0004-health-rule-packs.md) | Health and food-safety rule packs | proposed, needs dietitian and food-safety review | |
| [0005](0005-kitchens-and-production-runs.md) | Kitchens and production runs (fleets) | proposed | |
| [0006](0006-federation.md) | Federation: catalogs, registries, feeds and relays | proposed | |
| [0007](0007-farm-surplus-and-supply-signals.md) | Farm surplus and supply signals | proposed, experimental, needs competition-law review | |
| [0008](0008-conformance-reports-and-certification.md) | Conformance reports and the certification path | proposed | |
| [0009](0009-v0-import-profile.md) | V0 import profile and the unclassified step (fifi.cooking import) | draft | |
| [0012](0012-signing-header.md) | The signing header: a signature covers alg, hash, kid, kind and signedAt; one verification path; independent witnesses | accepted 2026-10-05, window to 2026-11-04 | 2026-10-05 to 2026-11-04 |
| [0011](0011-sensor-trust.md) | Sensor trust: health, calibration records and plausibility checks decide which sensors count as a rung | draft, needs a metrology or appliance-safety reviewer | |
| [0010](0010-certifications.md) | Certifications of ingredients, lots, recipes, meals and kitchens (halal, kosher, vegetarian, organic, …): detached, signed, re-certifiable | draft, needs review by certification bodies | |
| [0013](0013-community-recipe-submissions.md) | Community recipe submissions: anyone can add a recipe, by pull request, CLI or API | proposed | |

Statuses: `proposed` → `comment` → `accepted` or `rejected` → `implemented`. An RFC is a
short document: problem, proposal, alternatives considered, migration, open questions.