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12 changes: 11 additions & 1 deletion standards/certification/scopes-versions.md
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# Scopes and versions

SCS provides a certification framework consisting of six different kinds of certificates of varying scope.
## Infrastructure Offerings

For infrastructure offerings SCS provides a certification framework consisting of six different kinds of certificates of varying scope.
These scopes can be sorted into two dimensions:

1. _certification level_, of which there are three:
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Each scope corresponds to a set of standards. As these standards progress, so do the scopes, and we keep track of this by versioning. Each version undergoes a lifecycle of Draft, Stable, and Deprecated, and we aim to keep at most one version stable at the same time, with the exception of a transition period of 4 to 6 weeks.

The standard [SCS-0004](https://docs.scs.community/standards/global/scs-0004) describes the certification of infrastructure offerings in depth.

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## Certification of Integrators

For Integrators and Service Companies the existing framework for infrastructure offerings is used to do a competence and quality assesment.
Integrators can currently be certified in the _SCS-compatible IaaS_ scope.
The standard [SCS-0007](https://docs.scs.community/standards/global/scs-0007) describes the Integrator certification in depth.
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