Article 12 | The Interlocutory Authority of ISAIL.IN

(1) Mandate and Supervisory Standing: The Secretariat of the Indian Society of Artificial Intelligence and Law (ISAIL Secretariat) serves as the primary interlocutory, institutional, and certifying authority for OpenBharat.net agreements, external institutional compacts, and formally ratified standardization deliverables. The Secretariat exercises this authority through:

• Conducting formal institutional validation of finalized OWG standards, specifications, and model frameworks in concurrence with the OBGC prior to external release;

• Facilitating and formalizing multi-stakeholder covenants, industrial compacts, and public-private deployment frameworks; and

• Exercising legal and administrative oversight over implementation, external licensing, and compliance protocols.

(2) Scope of Co-signing Authority: The ISAIL Secretariat's formal co-signing prerogative shall extend to:

• Bilateral and multilateral standardisation agreements executed with Alliance Members or external industry partners;

• Joint technical cooperation frameworks, sandbox deployments, and empirical compute consortium covenants;

• National and transnational Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) or cross-jurisdictional standardisation arrangements; and

• Formal open-source repository transfers, Contributor License Agreements (CLAs), and external IP assignments involving succeeding entities.

(3) Pre-Execution Due Diligence and Contingency: Formal execution or co-signing of any instrument by the Secretariat remains strictly contingent upon:

• Institutional due diligence and verification of participating entities in accordance with the anti-corruption and conflict-of-interest mandates established under Article 4 of the ISAIL Charter;

• Prior clearance and technical verification by the OBGC regarding operational feasibility and domain readiness;

• Alignment with the Bharat Pacific Principles of AI Standardisation and ISAIL AI Principles; and

• Evaluation of potential systemic liabilities, platform dependencies, and sovereign technological impacts.

(4) Architecture of Standardisation Instruments: Standardisation agreements, sector compacts, and implementation accords shall delineate:

• Clear division of operational responsibilities between contributing entities, the OWG, the OBGC, and the ISAIL Secretariat;

• Applicable open-source, open-standard, or open-access licensing regimes adopted pursuant to Article 6;

• Explicit compliance benchmarks, auditability metrics, and technical specifications;

• Mandatory dispute resolution seated under the arbitration and mediation frameworks administered pursuant to Article 2(3) of the ISAIL Charter; and

• IP stewardship and attribution terms consistent with Article 6a of the ISAIL Charter.

(5) Institutional Support and Enabling Powers: Where deemed necessary to operationalize an executed standard or bilateral accord, the Secretariat, in coordination with the OBGC, is empowered to:

• Facilitate stakeholder coordination across regional divisions established under Schedule 4 and Schedule 6 of the ISAIL Charter;

• Commission implementation-support tracks or working desks within the appropriate OWG; and

• Support academic capacity-building, symposiums, and peer-mentorship channels via the ISAIL Academic Council.

(6) Institutional Repository and Recordkeeping: The ISAIL Secretariat retains central custody over institutional records, and is empowered to maintain:

• The authoritative institutional repository of all executed standardisation agreements, MoUs, and bilateral compacts;

• Canonical version registries under the OPENBHARAT numbering schema; and

• Contributor verification filings, active Alliance Membership rosters, and compliance monitoring archives.