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# Registry Notary retirement decision

> Record of the decision to retire Registry Notary and direct current adoption to Registry Relay and Evidence Gateway.

Registry Stack decided on 2026-08-03 to retire Registry Notary and direct
current adopters to Registry Relay and Evidence Gateway.

## Decision

**Date:** 2026-08-03

**Status:** Accepted

Retire Registry Notary from the current product surface, source workspace,
release train, and continuous integration gates.
Keep Registry Relay as the protected read product and Evidence Gateway as the
minimum-disclosure assertion product.
Registry Mint remains a supporting token issuer for deployments without an
identity provider.

Present two paths to adopters:

- Use Registry Relay when another system must read specific, authorized data.
- Use Evidence Gateway when another system must learn only a fact.

Evidence Gateway owns its source access independently of Registry Relay.
It is not a Notary mode or a continuation of the Notary credential lifecycle.

## Context

Registry Notary combined claim evaluation, credential issuance, disclosure
policy, replay handling, and audit provenance.
Evidence Gateway defines a smaller, stateless assertion boundary with its own frozen
Version 1 contracts.
Keeping both products on the current surface would give adopters overlapping
entry points while preserving two different product models.

The retirement narrows the supported surface without changing Registry
Relay's role or Evidence Gateway's name, contracts, or independence.

## Consequences

- Completing the retirement removes Registry Notary from workspace components,
  new release manifests, continuous integration gates, and current product
  documentation.
- Registry Relay and Evidence Gateway remain separate products with separate runtime
  and configuration boundaries.
- Evidence Gateway Version 1 wire identifiers and production behavior remain
  unchanged.
- Historical changelogs, decision records, release manifests, and archived
  documentation retain Registry Notary references.
- Publishing this decision redirects current Notary documentation URLs to the
  corresponding Evidence Gateway guidance or to this decision record.
- Archiving retired Notary source and product material is deferred to a
  separate decision.

## Superseded by

None.