Jellen Protocol Lab

The Jellen Protocol Lab is an independent research lab focused on protocol design, rights modeling, and infrastructure-oriented systems research across digital and public systems. The Lab publishes inspectable specifications, registries, and reference artifacts that model how modern industries and public systems can be structured as interoperable infrastructure.

The Lab's flagship research program is the Universal Sports Graph (USG), a standards-grade protocol stack for representing sports rights, access, and settlement through RFCs and a versioned registry.

Outputs of the Lab include RFC-style protocol specifications, canonical registries, DOI-backed research papers, and platform-level architectural frameworks. These artifacts are published with explicit versioning, status markers, and public review surfaces.

This page represents Lab v0.1. The Lab is intentionally small and independent. At this stage, it publishes research artifacts and protocol specifications rather than products or services. Governance, licensing, and mandate are made explicit at the artifact level and may evolve in public as the work matures.

Established 2025.

The Approach

Scott Jellen is an independent researcher working at the intersection of protocol design, rights modeling, and interoperability. He is the creator of the Universal Sports Graph (USG), a standards-grade framework for sports rights and access, spanning RFC-style specifications and a versioned registry. His ongoing work includes whitepapers, briefs, and standards-oriented models that clarify incentives and modernize institutional systems.

© 2025 Scott Jellen. All rights reserved.