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Built on open international standards.

Mokunet does not invent its own vocabulary for governance, records, or supply chains. It builds on established international standards, so that what a district measures is comparable, accountable, and portable beyond the platform. A community's goals (ISO 37101) frame its projects (ISO 14040), whose records are kept trustworthy (ISO 15489-1), while GS1 traces products across facilities — together turning intentions into measurable outcomes for a moku.

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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 sets out six purposes of sustainability and twelve areas of action — the frame for how associations, shared facilities, and contracts work within a moku. 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 records move and are kept — from creation through syncing, access control, and long-term retention — so they stay trustworthy wherever they are stored.

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 stating exactly what data a building's digital model must contain — and checking that it does. Mokunet uses IDS to express what 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.

Hawaiʻi aligns the 17 UN SDGs with the State Planning Act, the Hawaiʻi 2050 Sustainability Plan, and the Aloha+ Challenge. Each goal — clean water, climate action, life on land, and so on — routes programs and projects into the right work for a district, guiding which data flows where. The SDGs are how a community goal becomes a concrete, place-based plan on the shared map.
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.