# Source register

Access date for all sources: 2026-09-22.

| ID | Primary or authoritative source | Material use | Limitation |
|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | World Wide Web Consortium, “PROV-Overview,” https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-overview/ | Supports preserving entities, activities and people involved in producing data or another thing so quality, reliability and trustworthiness can be assessed. | W3C provenance guidance is not a self-storage rate-release standard and does not establish a legal, financial or customer remedy. |
| S2 | RFC Editor, “RFC 3339: Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps,” https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3339/ | Supports recording an unambiguous timestamp with an explicit relationship to Coordinated Universal Time. | It does not replace a facility business calendar, scheduled-pricing rule, legal effective date or civil-time-zone database. |
| S3 | Federal Trade Commission, “Advertising FAQ’s: A Guide for Small Business,” https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/resources/advertising-faqs-guide-small-business | Supports the attributed general principles that advertising should be truthful and non-deceptive, supported by evidence and accompanied by clear and conspicuous qualifying information when needed. | General U.S. federal business guidance, not legal advice or a conclusion about self-storage pricing, any specific offer, state law or contract. |
| S4 | National Institute of Standards and Technology, “SP 800-128: Guide for Security-Focused Configuration Management of Information Systems,” https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/128/upd1/final | Supports the limited transferable discipline of identifying, evaluating, approving, implementing and monitoring controlled changes. | Federal security-focused configuration guidance, not a pricing, advertising, self-storage or consumer-protection standard. No NIST compliance is claimed. |

## Evidence boundary

The article proposes an operating method. It does not state that a named operator, facility, customer, platform or provider uses the method. It does not report prices, deployments, acceptance rates, revenue, occupancy, customer outcomes, compliance, performance or recognition. Northline Storage Cooperative, all facilities, identifiers, amounts, timestamps and results are fictional. Implementation must follow the operator’s current pricing authority, contracts, customer-service process, privacy controls, legal requirements and provider-supported paths.