Fleet operations · Not yet operating

One fleet. One policy. One record. waiOS, for running WAI and waiTransport across an organisation.

waiOS is a commercial enterprise product from Transaction Science for organisations that run WAI widely: across the media runtimes on their own devices, servers and edges, through waiTransport, or both. It will manage the runtimes in that fleet, apply one policy across them, report the energy they use, run private registries of decoders and parameter sets, and keep an audit record. Every WAI receipt and claim it will keep can be checked with the open WAI verifiers, without waiOS.

The three labels

In the standard
The open component is in the main branch of the WAI open standard. Its link goes to its row on the dated WAI status page, and its notes are that row's.
Building
The open component is in active development, as the WAI status page lists it.
Roadmap
Planned: a WAI roadmap item, or a waiOS service. Every waiOS service is on the roadmap; none is operating yet.

Attested, in WAI, means signed by the party that did the work and measured it: a reader can check the signature, not re-measure the figure. It is not hardware attestation.

Ask about design partnership Where each part stands The WAI standard

waiOS will run on the WAI open standard and work with waiTransport. Nothing it manages will stop being a WAI file, a WAI receipt or a WAI runtime.

What it will run

Operations for the whole fleet, on the open standard.

Each service will work from what WAI already records: receipts, claims, key logs and digests. Each card says where the service stands and what it builds on.

  • Fleet

    Fleet runtime management

    Will keep an inventory of the WAI runtimes in a fleet and what each can decode, and will roll out and revoke parameter sets by digest.

    Roadmap· service

    Open components: In the standard Roadmap

  • Policy

    One policy, applied everywhere

    The capabilities, licence classes, determinism tiers and energy budgets an organisation allows will be written once, digested and applied to every runtime and delivery.

    Roadmap· service

    Open components: In the standard

  • Reporting

    Energy and carbon reporting

    Will total energy from signed figures, each with its acquisition class, and keep carbon labelled as modelled. Per-reconstruction C2PA manifests are in the standard; a report form for totals will be new waiOS work.

    Roadmap· service

    Open components: In the standard Roadmap

  • Private registries

    Private and on-premises registries

    Registries of decoder modules and parameter sets that will run in the organisation's own infrastructure, under its own key log, refusing anything revoked.

    Roadmap· service

    Open components: In the standard Building Roadmap

  • Audit

    Audit and compliance

    Will retain the organisation's WAI receipts and claims and export them for an auditor to check offline with the open verifiers.

    Roadmap· service

    Open components: In the standard

  • Support

    Service levels and support

    Service levels will be written into each contract, with support on the reference implementation.

    Roadmap· service

    Open components: In the standard

Built on WAI

The standard. The delivery. The operations.

WAI is the open standard: it specifies the format and how it rides existing carriers. waiTransport will run delivery on it. waiOS will run an organisation's use of both: the runtimes, the policy, the reports and the record. An organisation will be able to run waiOS over its own WAI deployment without waiTransport, and to leave waiOS without changing a file, a receipt or a runtime.

What waiOS never charges for

  • The WAI format.

    The envelope, the manifest, the capability registry and the dispatch rules are free to implement.

  • The reference runtime.

    The reference implementation stays open and free.

  • Verifying a WAI record.

    Every WAI receipt and claim waiOS will keep verifies with the open verifiers, without waiOS.

Where it stands

Each part labelled. The service next.

Each capability lists the open components it builds on, each labelled as the dated WAI status page labels it: In the standard, Building or Roadmap. The services built on them are on the roadmap.

See the status page

The WAI family

One standard, and the products built on it.

  • The open standard

    WAI

    The format and how it rides existing carriers: the specification, the capability registry, the conformance suites and the reference implementation. Free to implement.

    Draft · Apache-2.0

  • Media delivery

    waiTransport

    A commercial product that will deliver WAI media end to end: Media over QUIC, HTTP and broadcast, receipts, decoder registries, protection, ad insertion, runtimes and developer tools.

    Not yet operating

  • Fleet operations

    waiOSThis site

    A commercial enterprise product that will run WAI and waiTransport across an organisation: fleet, policy, reporting, private registries, audit and support.

    Not yet operating