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sm-listing

How a community publishes the members who asked to be findable — so an agent that has never met them can discover them by what they offer and where they are.

This is the second hop of agent discovery. sm-federation finds the community; this profile finds the member. They are separate because federation's own §1 says it is not a directory, and a member lookup service is exactly that.

A listing is not a member directory

A directory is the roster: everyone, including people who never asked to be listed anywhere. A listing contains only members who actively opted in, carrying only the fields they chose. Its default state is empty, and a community that enables it with nobody opted in publishes an empty document — which is correct, not a misconfiguration.

That distinction is the whole security model, so the spec states it normatively:

  • A non-consenting member is ABSENT — not an opaque entry, not a redacted placeholder. An opaque entry in a list is a census of the non-consenting: it publishes the one fact those members declined to publish, which is that they are there.
  • No count of excluded members, or anything one can be derived from. A count computed and then withheld is one refactor away from being emitted; excluding rows so that no count exists by construction is the mechanism.
  • The contact route is the member's agent endpoint, never a human contact detail. A consented listing carrying phone numbers is still a harvesting surface — one people opted into without understanding what they opted into.
  • No member-authored free text. Every field is a code, an identifier, a URL or a number. Free text is what leaks, and prose does not match across languages, so it was never the discovery mechanism.

What it carries

geography ISO 3166-2 for matching, plus resolvable place references for the precision ISO cannot express
offering (scheme, code) pairs — multi-encodable, so one member can publish NAICS and UNSPSC and a schema.org type
trade terms ships-to, currencies, minimum order, lead time — all on free, stable standards

What it does not promise

Matching is exact and hierarchical-prefix within one scheme. Cross- vocabulary matching is out of scope and stays out: a consumer querying JSIC will not match a publisher who listed only NAICS. Crosswalk tables are lossy, permanently maintained, and produce confidently wrong matches when stale — worse than no match. §6's multi-encoding is the mitigation, and it works by moving the translation burden onto the only participant who cannot get it wrong: the member describing itself.

Layout

spec/listing/0.1/listing.md the normative profile
src/sm_listing/wire/schema/listing/0.1/*.json JSON Schemas — the published wire contract, shipped inside the wheel (sm_listing.wire.load_schema)
src/sm_listing/wire/vectors/listing/v01/*.json conformance vectors, also shipped (sm_listing.wire.load_vectors)
conformance/ the suite an implementer runs

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