generated: '2026-07-26'
method: derived
source: >-
  openapi/rics-digitalcommunity-api-openapi.json, GitHub Releases for RICS-Data-Standard/RDS, and
  live anonymous probes on 2026-07-26
summary: >-
  RICS runs two independently versioned things and neither carries a published lifecycle policy for
  integrators. The DigitalCommunity API is on an unversioned "v1" with no deprecation policy, no
  Sunset/Deprecation header support, no SLA and no status page. The RICS Data Standard (RDS) is
  properly versioned and released on GitHub - v3.3.3 (March 2022) superseding v3.2.1 (April 2021) -
  but it has had no release in over four years and its repository last saw a push in January 2025.
apis:
- name: RICS DigitalCommunity API
  versioning:
    scheme: none-in-path
    current: v1
    evidence: >-
      info.version = "v1"; document served at /swagger/v1/swagger.json; operation paths themselves
      are unversioned (/api/Profile/{id}, /token).
    docs: none
  deprecation:
    policy_url: none
    sunset_header: unknown
    deprecation_header: unknown
    note: >-
      No RFC 8594 Sunset or Deprecation header could be observed - every anonymous probe is
      rejected at 401 before a resource response is produced, and no operation in the spec is
      marked deprecated: true.
  deprecated_operations: []
  sla:
    url: none
    uptime_target: none
  status_page: none
  support_channel: https://www.rics.org/footer/contact-us
  breaking_change_notice: none published
- name: RICS Data Standard (RDS)
  versioning:
    scheme: semver
    current: 3.3.3
    released: '2022-03-16'
    docs: https://github.com/RICS-Data-Standard/RDS/releases
  releases:
  - {version: v3.3.3, published: '2022-03-16', title: RICS Data Standard (RDS) - March 2022}
  - {version: v3.2.1, published: '2021-04-19', title: RICS Data Standard (RDS) - April 2021}
  deprecation:
    policy_url: none
    note: >-
      Supersession is stated in the release notes rather than in a policy - the v3.3.3 notes say the
      release "replaces the April 2021 release and all previous RICS Data Standards for IPMS and
      ICMS", and the 3.3.2 and 3.2.1 artifact files were deleted from the repository rather than
      archived (commits "Remove 3.3.2 Files", "Remove 3.2.1 Documentation").
  maintenance_signal:
    last_release: '2022-03-16'
    last_push: '2025-01-07'
    open_governance: none - one public repository, no issues/discussions process published
status_page: none
evidence:
- {source: openapi/rics-digitalcommunity-api-openapi.json, finding: info.version v1, no deprecated operations}
- {source: 'https://github.com/RICS-Data-Standard/RDS/releases', finding: two dated releases, v3.3.3 and v3.2.1}
- {source: live probe, finding: 'no status.rics.org and no status page linked from any RICS property'}