Gravity Certification Standard v1.0

# Gravity Certification Standard v1.0
Standard ID: GCS-1
Status: Canonical
Maintainer: GravityBTC

## Purpose

The Gravity Certification Standard defines how Gravity issues certification records for documents, artifacts, publications, evidence sets, and operational events.

A certification must include:

- certification_id
- certified_artifact
- artifact_hash
- issuer
- issued_at
- verification_record
- retrieval_path
- status
- applicable standards

## Certification Requirement

A certification is valid only if the certified artifact can be retrieved or reproduced and its hash can be independently checked.

## Required Standards Reference

Every certification must identify which Gravity standards apply.

Examples:

- GRS-1 for record structure
- GVS-1 for verification
- GPIS-1 for publication integrity
- GEPS-1 for evidence preservation

## Gravity Principle

Certification is not decoration.

Certification is structured, independently checkable issuance.