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 across digital and public systems. His work includes standards-oriented drafts, reference models, and whitepapers that explore how incentives, governance, and infrastructure can be represented clearly. He is currently establishing the Jellen Protocol Lab as a future home for this work. Flagship research includes the Universal Sports Graph (USG), spanning RFC-style specifications and an early reference registry.

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