Jellen Protocol Lab

The Jellen Protocol Lab is an independent research lab focused on protocol design, rights modeling, and infrastructure-grade systems research across digital and public systems. The Lab publishes inspectable specifications, registries, and reference artifacts that model how rights, access, and governance can be expressed 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 include RFC-style protocol specifications, canonical registries, DOI-backed research papers, and architectural frameworks. 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 across digital and public systems. His work includes standards-oriented specifications, reference models, and published whitepapers that examine how incentives, governance, and infrastructure can be represented clearly and designed to scale. He is the founder of the Jellen Protocol Lab, which serves as the emerging home for this research. Flagship work includes the Universal Sports Graph (USG), a protocol-based framework spanning RFC-style specifications and a versioned reference registry.

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© 2026 Scott Jellen. Licensing varies by publication.