Standards Lab

Open standards for authorization-centric digital systems.

Recur Labs develops interoperable standards that treat authorization as a first-class object, explicitly separated from execution.

Core principle
Execution should never imply authorization.
Scope
Authorization primitives and registries — not products or economics.

Standards

Recur focuses on a small number of standards: a foundational authorization primitive, plus optional profiles and infrastructure.

RIP-100 — Authorization Objects
Draft

Foundational primitive for explicit, time-bounded, revocable authorization objects that exist independently of execution.

RIP-001 — Permissioned Pull
Stable

A financial authorization profile for Authorization Objects, enabling permissioned pull without coupling consent to settlement timing.

RIP-002 — Consent Registry
Draft

Registry infrastructure for observing, verifying, and revoking Authorization Objects without defining execution semantics.

Out of scope

Participation

Recur Labs is an open standards effort. Discussion, critique, and independent implementations are encouraged.

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