The bureau, on the record.

Every formal submission from the IFO4 Standards Council to a standards body or financial regulator. Status, spokesperson, and full text. Public from the moment they are filed.

Press contactMireille Vance, Director of Communicationspress@ifo4.orgResponse under 24h on business days

The Posture

Become the regulatory rail.

The U.S. SEC Climate Disclosure Rule, the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, the UK FCA TCFD rules, and the IFRS S2 Sustainability Standards all require organisations to disclose financial-operations-related metrics. None of them currently names a default input format. The IFO4 Standards Council is filing the submissions, comment letters, and outreach packages required to make IFO4 the canonical input.

Every submission below is published in full. Every submission is licensed CC-BY-4.0; regulators may reproduce, reference, or include any submission in regulation or guidance without licensing fee. Every submission, once submitted, will be paired with a Sigstore-signed PDF whose verification key is the IFO4 Standards Council's published key. The submissions are public-record from the moment they are filed.

The Record

Every submission, in chronological order.

Apr 26, 2026

Drafted

ISO Technical Committee 207, Subcommittee 7 · International

Submission of RING:1000:2026 and UFMS:003:2026 GreenOps Annex as input to the next ISO 14064-3 revision

Proposes a per-resource per-day cloud emissions ledger schema, a Sigstore-signed verification posture, and recognition of the IFO4 Standards Council as a contributing standards-development organisation for forthcoming ISO work on cloud-specific GHG accounting.

Read the full submissionSpokesperson: Derris Taylor, Founder, IFO4

Apr 26, 2026

Drafted

United States Securities and Exchange Commission · United States

Public comment on the SEC Climate Disclosure Rule (File No. S7-10-22)

Recommends that SEC staff guidance recognise UFMS:003:2026 as a recommended schema for per-resource cloud emissions disclosures, recognise the daily Sigstore-signed snapshot posture as a sufficient verification practice, and recognise the IFO4 Score V2 as a recommended supplementary disclosure metric.

Read the full submissionSpokesperson: Derris Taylor, Founder, IFO4

The Standards

What the regulators are referencing.

RING:1000:2026

Ring Methodology for Cloud Financial Operations

Seventy-control framework organising cloud financial operations into seven concentric Rings. Ring 6 (Environment and Denial) is the scope-2 emissions verification posture.

UFMS:003:2026

Universal Financial Metadata Schema, GreenOps Annex

Per-resource per-day emissions ledger schema with nine attribution columns and a documented methodology field. The recommended schema for SEC, EU CSRD, and ISO 14064 cloud disclosures.

TGS:001:2026

Tool Grading Standard

Ninety-item vendor scorecard for FinOps and GreenOps tooling. Used in the IFO4 MATRIX. Submitted as input to forthcoming ISO/IEC procurement guidance.

Score V2

IFO4 300-to-1000 Financial Operations Score

A FICO-grade composite score, computed from the seven Rings plus five live modifiers, recommended in our SEC comment letter as a supplementary disclosure metric.

For Regulators

If you are a regulator and you are reading this:

The IFO4 standards are open. The license is permissive. The technical documentation is complete. The reference implementation is live and producing daily Sigstore-signed cohort snapshots in production. There is no commercial licence to negotiate, no per-seat fee to budget for, and no single-vendor lock-in.

You may incorporate any IFO4 standard, in whole or in part, into regulation, guidance, supervisory letter, examination manual, taxonomy, or any other instrument of public-record rule-making, with attribution under CC-BY-4.0, without prior consent or notification to IFO4. You may, of course, contact us via press@ifo4.org for an in-depth briefing, joint working group sessions, or input on revisions tailored to your jurisdiction.

The IFO4 Standards Council meets monthly. Council meetings are open to any regulator who wishes to attend. Mireille Vance can arrange a standing observer seat for your office.

IFO4

Become the regulatory rail.

Every submission, in chronological order.

Apr 26, 2026

Drafted

ISO Technical Committee 207, Subcommittee 7 · International

Submission of RING:1000:2026 and UFMS:003:2026 GreenOps Annex as input to the next ISO 14064-3 revision

Read the full submissionSpokesperson: Derris Taylor, Founder, IFO4

Apr 26, 2026

Drafted

United States Securities and Exchange Commission · United States

Public comment on the SEC Climate Disclosure Rule (File No. S7-10-22)

Read the full submissionSpokesperson: Derris Taylor, Founder, IFO4

If you are a regulator and you are reading this:

The IFO4 Standards Council meets monthly. Council meetings are open to any regulator who wishes to attend. Mireille Vance can arrange a standing observer seat for your office.