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Built on open international standards.

Mokunet does not invent its own vocabulary for governance, records, or supply chains. It composes established international standards so that what a district measures is comparable, auditable, and portable beyond the platform. Community goals (ISO 37101) frame lifecycle projects (ISO 14040) whose records are governed for integrity (ISO 15489-1), while GS1 carries traceability across facilities — together driving measurable district outcomes.

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The standards, and what each one does

Each standard occupies a distinct layer — from the community frame at the top to the item-level identifiers at the bottom. They are designed to nest.

Community sustainability management

ISO 37101
A management system for sustainable development in communities. It defines six purposes of sustainability and twelve areas of action that frame cooperative associations, shared infrastructure, and contract narratives within moku-based governance. It is the outermost frame: community goals set here guide everything below.

Life cycle assessment

ISO 14040
The methodology standard for lifecycle environmental assessment. It defines a four-phase process — Goal & Scope, Inventory, Impact Assessment, Interpretation — that district projects follow to measure their sustainability impact rather than assert it.

Records management

ISO 15489-1
Defines how digital records keep their authenticity, reliability, integrity, and usability across systems. It governs how data moves through the platform's multi-database architecture — from creation through synchronization, access control, and long-term retention.

Service life planning

ISO 15686
Establishes a systematic framework for planning a built asset's service life across its entire lifecycle — the basis for treating facilities as long-lived, maintainable assets rather than one-time deliverables.

Information Delivery Specification

buildingSMART IDS
An open standard for defining BIM data requirements and validating IFC building models against them. Mokunet uses IDS to express what data a facility's models must carry under a governance contract, and to check delivered models automatically.

Supply chain traceability

GS1
Global standards for identifying products (GTIN), locations (GLN), and assets across supply chains. GS1 Digital Links connect physical items to their digital records, enabling farm-to-table traceability through partner infrastructure.

How they fit together

Read top to bottom, the standards form a chain from intent to evidence.

ISO 37101sets the community's sustainability purpose for a moku. ISO 14040 turns a project under that purpose into a measurable lifecycle assessment. ISO 15686 keeps the resulting assets planned across their full service life. buildingSMART IDSspecifies exactly what data a facility's models must deliver, and validates it. GS1 labels the products, locations, and assets so they stay traceable through the supply chain. And ISO 15489-1 runs underneath all of it, keeping every record authentic and auditable as it moves between systems.

The SDGs are the gateway

Above the technical standards sits the framework that routes everything: the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Hawai'i aligns the 17 UN SDGs with the State Planning Act, the Hawai'i 2050 Sustainability Plan, and the Aloha+ Challenge. Each SDG code — sdg2, sdg6, sdg13, and so on — routes programs and projects into the right district workflows, controlling which data flows where. The SDGs are how a community goal becomes a concrete, place-resolved workflow on the spatial backbone.
Standards are how Mokunet stays accountable: a claim about sustainability, records integrity, or supply-chain provenance traces back to a published specification rather than an internal convention. See how the buildingSMART IDS standard plays out for real facilities, or how supply-chain governance uses GS1.