# Verification record — `ec/sri/inscripcion-ruc-persona-natural` v1.0.0 This file is the **source-review record** for this document version, per the [`manual-source-review-v1`](../../../../../practices/manual-source-review-v1.md) practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and states the current verification claim honestly. ## Current claim - **`status`:** `draft` - **`verification.method`:** `manual-source-review-v1` - **`verification.lastVerifiedAt`:** `2026-07-16` This is a `GovSchema Standard Research` cycle (**GOV-3328**), a general research-analyst brief covering DMV, Business Formation, Visa, Passport, Taxes, and National ID & Civic Documents across all jurisdictions. ## Why this candidate Ecuador opened as this registry's 65th jurisdiction only three cycles ago (GOV-3305), with a single vertical modelled — Visa, via `ec/cancilleria/formulario-solicitud-visa`. That schema's own VERIFICATION.md recorded SRI's web server (`www.sri.gob.ec`) as unreachable at the time ("connection timeout, curl exit 28"), leaving it un-pursued as a candidate for Ecuador's Business Formation vertical. This cycle re-checked SRI first rather than opening a 66th brand-new jurisdiction, since Ecuador, Ethiopia, and Georgia (the registry's three newest jurisdictions, each opened in the immediately preceding cycles) each still have 5 of their 6 verticals open — building out an already-open jurisdiction's next vertical is preferred over adding jurisdiction #66 when a live, well-sourced candidate is available. SRI's server responded normally this cycle (HTTP 200 on every fetch, with a realistic desktop `User-Agent` header set) to both of the documents this schema is built from. Other Ecuadorian candidates screened this cycle and found weaker: - **Registro Civil passport renewal/first-issue**: requires an already-created `Agencia Virtual` account (login-gated), with no downloadable field-by-field form found describing the online wizard's own structure. - **Registro Civil "Duplicado de cédula Express"** (`apps.registrocivil.gob.ec/portalCiudadano/cedulaexpress/`): a genuine live, unauthenticated JSF/PrimeFaces application — confirmed live via direct `curl` and a real Playwright/Chromium session (screenshot captured) — but its entire visible field surface is a 3-field search step (10-digit cédula/NUI number, date of birth, and an image CAPTCHA); the actual duplicate-request/payment step that would follow a successful search is rendered server-side only after that CAPTCHA is solved against a real citizen's own registered data, which this cycle could not do without impersonating a real person. Left as a disclosed, thin, gated candidate — see "Known gaps" below — rather than authored as a 3-field schema. - **ANT (Agencia Nacional de Tránsito) vehicle-registration forms**: the live `ant.gob.ec/index.php/formularios` page itself did not respond to a direct connection attempt this cycle; a Wayback Machine snapshot (dated 2020-09-20, the most recent full crawl found) resolves instead, but its form inventory is almost entirely heavy-transport/commercial-fleet paperwork (refund requests, transport-permit renewals, web-service access forms for professional transport operators) with no core "vehicle registration/matriculación" application form among the indexed links — weaker than the RUC candidate below. **SRI's RUC (Registro Único de Contribuyentes) registration for natural persons** was the strongest candidate found: a genuine official request-form template (`Formato solicitudes RUC inscripcion- persona natural.docx`) hosted directly on `www.sri.gob.ec`, corroborated by SRI's own official screenshot-driven step-by-step guide (`GUIA RUC EN LINEA.pdf`) for the fully online channel. This document authors that candidate, opening Ecuador's Business Formation vertical (2 of 6). ## Sources examined ### Primary source - **Authority:** Servicio de Rentas Internas (SRI) - **Document:** Solicitud de Inscripción del RUC (persona natural) — "Formato solicitudes RUC inscripcion- persona natural.docx" - **URL (directly retrieved, HTTP 200, `application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document`):** `https://www.sri.gob.ec/o/sri-portlet-biblioteca-alfresco-internet/descargar/057da380-7223-4000-9e43-fd44c2550cd6/Formato%20solicitudes%20RUC%20inscripcion-%20persona%20natural.docx` - **File identity:** `sha256:1dacd4966d4a82648744b1500ba967e86c53f2d470dea37c7c9d425be660cca`, 41,387 bytes. - **Extraction method:** the `.docx` container is a ZIP archive; `word/document.xml` was read directly with Python's `zipfile` module and its `` elements walked cell-by-cell via regex over the raw WordprocessingML (no docx-to-plain-text conversion, which would have lost the table's row/column structure). This confirmed 3 tables: 1. **"Actividad Solicitada"** — 4 rows: a header row ("Código CIIU" / "Descripción" / "Señale una de las actividades como principal") and 3 identically-structured data rows, each an empty Código-CIIU cell paired with an empty Descripción cell. 2. **Address block** — 14 rows: a two-column header ("DIRECCIÓN DEL DOMICILIO" / "DIRECCIÓN DEL ESTABLECIMIENTO MATRIZ") followed by 13 rows, each a label/blank pair repeated for both address columns: `*Provincia:`, `*Cantón:`, `*Parroquia:`, `*Calle principal:`, `*Número:`, `*Intersección:`, `Edificio:`, `Piso:`, `Oficina o local:`, `*Referencia de Ubicación:`, `Teléfono convencional:`, `*Celular:`, `*Correo electrónico:` — 9 of the 13 carry the template's own leading asterisk, 4 do not. 3. **Estimated annual income** — a single-cell question, "¿Cuál es el ingreso bruto anual que estima recibir por la actividad que realiza? $ ___". The document's preamble (outside any table) reads: "Yo, ___, identificado con cédula/pasaporte No. ___, solicito la inscripción en el Registro Único de Contribuyentes (RUC), para el desarrollo de la(s) siguiente(s) actividad(es) económica(s):", followed by the closing declaration: "Declaro que todos los documentos presentados ante el Servicio de Rentas Internas son auténticos y verdaderos, y me hago responsable de los mismos dentro de los controles posteriores que la Administración Tributaria pueda realizar." and a note that a supporting document ("Documento que respalda la inscripción solicitada, de acuerdo a los requisitos publicados...") must be attached in PDF format. - **Provenance corroboration:** `docProps/core.xml` records the document's author as an identified SRI staff member and a creation timestamp of 2022-08-17T17:45:00Z; `word/header1.xml` prints "Solicitudes del RUC" as the running page header — both consistent with a genuine internal SRI template rather than a third-party facsimile. ### Corroborating source - **Document:** "GUIA Inscripción de RUC — Guía para contribuyentes, Inscripción de RUC en Línea" (14 pages) - **URL (directly retrieved, HTTP 200, `application/pdf`):** `https://www.sri.gob.ec/o/sri-portlet-biblioteca-alfresco-internet/descargar/399ecb4a-1b47-4f68-99f8-57c96fc67dc5/GUIA%20RUC%20EN%20LINEA.pdf` - **File identity:** `sha256:a94f767fb26d1f79862e8049678b704711ddc6f2373ff78286a6e91cc199757f`, 1,044,290 bytes. - **Extraction method:** `pdfjs-dist` (legacy build), `getTextContent()` per page. - **What it corroborates:** the same field set (contact details, address including a "CUEN" electrical-supply-code lookup aid, economic activities via CIIU codes, estimated annual income) appears in this screenshot-driven walkthrough of the fully online `SRI en Línea` self-service channel, which requires an already-issued online-access password (`clave de acceso a SRI en Línea`) to reach — this schema does not model that login-gated wizard directly, only the requirement structure it documents in common with the primary `.docx` template. It also states (p.8) that the annual-income field "debe ser llenado de manera obligatoria" (must be filled in as mandatory) for every applicant, used to justify `required: true` on `ingresoBrutoAnualEstimado` despite the primary template printing no asterisk there; and (p.9) a hard cap of "mínimo 1 y máximo 20 actividades económicas por cada establecimiento" for the online channel specifically — disclosed as an online-only detail this schema's 3-slot economic-activity group (matching the primary template's own 3 printed rows) does not reflect. - Two SRI-published trámite-guide pages on the government's own `gob.ec` portal were also fetched and read in full this cycle: `gob.ec/sri/tramites/inscripcion-registro-unico-contribuyente-ruc-persona-natural` and its `-documento-habilitante` sibling (for applicants in specific regulated professions/segments — accountants, notaries, artisans, transportistas, etc., a narrower sub-case not modelled separately here). Both list the same required-document categories the primary template's own closing note describes (a supporting document per the requisitos ficha), corroborating rather than contradicting the primary source. ### External reference table - **CIIU (Clasificación Industrial Internacional Uniforme) code format:** confirmed via INEC's own live Sistema Integrado de Consultas de Clasificaciones y Nomenclaturas (`aplicaciones2.ecuadorencifras.gob.ec/SIN/`), which resolves real codes in the shape `[A-U][0-9]{4}` with an optional `.NN` decimal sub-code (e.g. `G4711`, `G4711.01`, `G4711.02` all resolve as genuine codes). Modelled as a `pattern`-validated free-text field per this registry's established convention for large external code tables (the full CIIU nomenclature runs to several hundred codes across all sectors), the same approach `pe/sunat/solicitud-inscripcion-ruc-persona-natural` already uses for its own CIIU fields. ## Known gaps / disclosed scope boundaries - **Online-wizard-only conditional logic** (RIMPE regime classification derived from declared income, professional-title/artisan-qualification selection changing available CIIU activities, conditional VAT-withholding question) is documented in GUIA RUC EN LINEA.pdf but not modelled here — it belongs to the login-gated `SRI en Línea` wizard, not the printed request template this schema is built from. A future companion/minor- version cycle that can walk that wizard live (with a real or test-provisioned SRI online-access credential) could extend this schema. - **Economic-activity cap**: modelled at 3 slots (matching the primary template's own 3 printed rows), not the online channel's stated 20-per- establishment maximum — disclosed above, consistent with this registry's established bounded-repeating-group convention. - **Ecuador's "Duplicado de cédula Express" National ID candidate** (`apps.registrocivil.gob.ec/portalCiudadano/cedulaexpress/`) remains a disclosed, open, thin lead for a future cycle: live, unauthenticated, confirmed via both direct `curl` and a real Playwright/Chromium session, but gated after its 3-field search step (cédula number, date of birth, CAPTCHA) by a server-rendered next step this cycle could not reach without a real citizen's own registered identity to search against. - Ecuador's remaining verticals — Passport, DMV, Taxes, and National ID — are still open backlog candidates after this cycle. ## Conformance fixtures 8 fixtures are committed under `conformance/ec/sri/inscripcion-ruc-persona-natural/1.0.0/`: 2 valid submissions (0 errors each — one single-activity applicant, one multi-activity applicant with a marked principal activity) and 6 mutation-control fixtures (each expected to raise exactly 1 error): a missing required address field (`domicilioProvincia`), a missing required contact field (`domicilioCorreoElectronico`), an invalid email format, a missing required `applicantFullName`, an invalid CIIU-code pattern, and an `exclusivityGroups` violation (two economic activities both marked principal). All 8 were checked with a from-scratch, throwaway Node mock validator implementing this schema's own `required`/`validation`/ `exclusivityGroups` rules (not committed — consistent with this registry's established per-cycle practice of writing an independent validator rather than reusing the authoring script). Both `tools/validate.mjs` and `tools/validate-ajv.mjs` pass at 507/507 across the full registry with this schema added. ## Verification method assessment `manual-source-review-v1` — a human/agent read the primary source directly and transcribed its fields. No automated re-verification tooling exists yet for this schema; `nextReviewBy` is set 6 months out per the practice's default cadence.