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The CCB Sign-Off Mark
The rest of this catalog measures. This one signs.
The CCB Sign-Off Mark is the Cultural Compliance Bureau’s certification that a deliverable cleared cultural validation — the Bureau’s name placed on the work, traceable to a registry and revocable if it should not stand. Where the indices and audits in this catalog produce findings, the Mark is the signature that stands behind one. This page places it among the frameworks; the full account of what it certifies and how it is issued, registered, and revoked lives on its primary page.
A Cultural Compliance Bureau certification · Updated June 2026
The Sign-Off Mark
Signed · Registered · Revocable
In the catalog
Two kinds of instrument, and the seal that ends them.
The Frameworks & Benchmarks catalog holds two kinds of instrument. Some measure — the Pashto-Dari Parity Index, the Sovereign Speech Index, the Court Interpreter Readiness Score, the Resettlement Integration Index — producing a finding about where something stands. Others validate and protect — the Five-Gate Validation Protocol, the Cultural Hallucination Audit, the inclusion standards — producing a judgment about whether something is sound. The Sign-Off Mark is neither. It is the certification at the end: the Bureau’s attestation that the validation those instruments perform was carried through to a signed conclusion, by a body willing to put its name on the call.
That is the Mark’s place here. It does not measure a system or audit a deliverable; it certifies that the work was made to clear the standard and that the Bureau stands behind it. And because the Bureau stands behind it, the Mark is accountable: it is traceable to a registry, and it can be revoked. It is an attestation at a point in time, not a permanent guarantee — which is precisely what makes it worth more than a claim.
The complete account — what the Mark certifies, how it is issued and registered, when it is revoked, and its visual identity — is on its primary page. → The CCB Sign-Off Mark
The shape of it
Two movements, one signature.
The instruments that measure and the instruments that validate resolve into one act — a signed conclusion the Bureau stands behind.
The catalog
Where the Mark sits among the instruments.
The catalog runs in two movements — instruments that measure, and instruments that validate — and the Mark is the signature that closes them.
Measure
Instruments that produce a finding about where something stands.
The Pashto-Dari Parity IndexThe Sovereign Speech IndexThe Court Interpreter Readiness ScoreThe Resettlement Integration IndexValidate & protect
Instruments that produce a judgment about whether something is sound.
The Cultural Hallucination AuditThe Section 1557 Conformance MapThe Diaspora Trial Inclusion StandardThe Five-Gate Validation ProtocolThe distinction
What the Mark is — and is not.
Not a measurement
It produces no score or finding about where a system stands. That is the work of the indices.
Not an audit
It does not inspect a deliverable for what is wrong. That is the work of the audit.
A signature
It certifies that the work was made to clear the standard — and the Bureau places its name behind that.
The Mark is traceable to a registry and revocable. It is an attestation at a point in time, not a permanent guarantee — which is precisely what makes it worth more than a claim. The full account is on its primary page.
The signature is the Bureau’s. The full account is one click away.
The Sign-Off Mark belongs to the Cultural Compliance Bureau, and its complete page covers everything this one does not — issuance, the registry, revocation, and identity. For deliverables that must carry it, the conversation starts here.
