vehicles 0.9.0 → 0.9.2

data/data/plates/kr.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/kr.yml — Republic of Korea (PRD-PLATES gate L3).
+# plates/kr.yml — Republic of Korea (the plates spec gate L3).
 #
 # EVERY dimension, colour, layout, class-code range and use-syllable claim in
 # this file comes from ONE instrument and its annexes: 「자동차 등록번호판 등의
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 # a rental car (허). It is emphatically NOT a separator and no consumer may
 # delete it.
 #
-# PRD-PLATES §2.6 fixes the dataset's serial alphabet at A-Z and 0-9 and says in
+# the plates spec §2.6 fixes the dataset's serial alphabet at A-Z and 0-9 and says in
 # terms that a jurisdiction printing a glyph inside a serial "is a schema
 # amendment, not a data entry". Korea is that jurisdiction. Until the amendment
 # lands, this file draws the line exactly where §2.5/§2.6 and the Japan note in
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
 #     in printed order, with the hangul element ELIDED. For 123가4568 the
 #     skeleton is 1234568 and the pattern is "9999999".
 #   * `format.hangul_field` (this file's local extension, the `fields[]`
-#     composition PRD-PLATES §2.2 anticipates for Japan) carries the elided
+#     composition the plates spec §2.2 anticipates for Japan) carries the elided
 #     element: its position, its script, its width in millimetres, its closed
 #     value set and a pointer into plates/_decode/kr-use-syllables.yml.
 #   * `matching: strict` is nonetheless correct on these series, and the reason
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
 #    in the dossier; the year is asserted, the day is not.
 #
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT IN THIS FILE (PRD-PLATES §2.5)
+# WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT IN THIS FILE (the plates spec §2.5)
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #   * Military plates. Korean armed-forces registration is a Ministry of
 #     National Defense system outside 「자동차관리법」 and outside this notice;
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ series:
         hex_basis: cmyk-naive
         cmyk_spec: "Annex 2-2 item 5: 디자인 배경 basic ground 밝은색 C40 M4 Y0 K0 / 중간색 C96 M90 Y0 K1 / 어두운색 C100 M97 Y22 K29; 국가축약문자 KOR same three, KOR outline C9 M7 Y7 K0; 숫자 및 한글 C73 M67 Y65 K80"
         note: "The band is a blue gradient, not a flat colour; the hex is a naive CMYK conversion of the mid tone and is for rendering only. This is Korea's equivalent of the EU band and it is NOT an EU band: it carries the national taegeuk and the ISO country abbreviation KOR."
-      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, note: "the taegeuk in the band is a national symbol; PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder rule applies until its licence posture is affirmatively cleared" }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, note: "the taegeuk in the band is a national symbol; the plates spec §3 placeholder rule applies until its licence posture is affirmatively cleared" }
       hologram: { present: true, note: "Annex 2-2 item 4 (홀로그램 패턴) — a 25 mm grid of holographic security marks across the plate face" }
       rear_differs: false
     region_encoding: none
@@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ series:
           quasi-diplomatic (준외), quasi-consular (준영), international-
           organisation (국기) and other-diplomatic (협정, 대표) plates likewise.
           Same format, same colours, same period — a WORD-only variant, so a
-          sub-entry per PRD-PLATES §2.3 rather than six near-identical series.
+          sub-entry per the plates spec §2.3 rather than six near-identical series.
           The full seven-word list with its Korean category names is in
           plates/_decode/kr-use-syllables.yml under `diplomatic`.
         sources:

data/data/plates/li.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/li.yml — Liechtenstein (PRD-PLATES gate L1, microstates group).
+# plates/li.yml — Liechtenstein (the plates spec gate L1, microstates group).
 # DRAFT for verification. All primary text fetched from gesetze.li 2026-08-02.
 #
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
 #    agency-level or is omitted.
 #
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-# REGEX POLICY (PRD-PLATES §2.7 tiers)
+# REGEX POLICY (the plates spec §2.7 tiers)
 # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #   regex            the printed form: literal FL, an optional separator, and
 #                    1-5 digits. THE DIGIT CEILING IS NOT IN THE ORDINANCE —
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ common:
     status: RECORDED SCHEMA FINDING — affects every series in this file
     finding: >-
       THE HUMAN-PATTERN DSL CANNOT SPELL A LITERAL "L", AND LIECHTENSTEIN IS THE
-      JURISDICTION WHERE THAT BITES HARDEST. PRD-PLATES §2.2 defines the pattern
+      JURISDICTION WHERE THAT BITES HARDEST. The plates spec §2.2 defines the pattern
       alphabet as "9=digit L=letter, literal separators as printed", and
       lint_plates.rb implements it by substituting EVERY "9" and EVERY "L" in a
       pattern with a random digit or letter. There is no escape mechanism. So
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ common:
       A schema amendment would fix this properly — either an escape in the
       pattern DSL (e.g. a quoted literal) or a `format.literal_prefix` field.
       Recorded here rather than acted on, because inventing notation in a data
-      PR is exactly what PRD-PLATES §2.6 forbids for separators and the same
+      PR is exactly what the plates spec §2.6 forbids for separators and the same
       discipline applies to the pattern alphabet. The same limitation forced
       sm.yml to model the San Marino POLIZIA legend as plate furniture rather
       than as part of the serial.
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ common:
       Wappengesetz's use article.
     rendered: placeholder
     licence_posture: >-
-      PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder rule applies. The Wappengesetz reserves the
+      the plates spec §3's placeholder rule applies. The Wappengesetz reserves the
       state arms to the State and no affirmatively-clean licence route to the
       artwork was located, so the emblem slot renders as a neutral placeholder
       exactly as in ch.yml. Recorded honestly and NOT as legal advice: the
@@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ common:
       delegation — Liechtenstein does not even delegate the question the way the
       Swiss ordinance does to the ASTRA.
     licence: >-
-      No licensable font is mandated, so per PRD-PLATES §6 the render layer uses
+      No licensable font is mandated, so per the plates spec §6 the render layer uses
       the schematic fallback and records the substitution. No third-party plate
       font is touched.
     source: "https://www.gesetze.li/konso/1978.020  # VZV Art. 72 Abs. 2, Art. 74 — the whole of what the ordinance says about characters"

data/data/plates/lt.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/lt.yml — Lithuania (PRD-PLATES gate L1, EU/EEA wave 2). DRAFT for
+# plates/lt.yml — Lithuania (the plates spec gate L1, EU/EEA wave 2). DRAFT for
 # verification: researched by an Opus L1 researcher, never applied directly.
 #
 # THE LITHUANIAN SOURCE POSITION, STATED HONESTLY UP FRONT
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
 #     which the authority and the secondary sources alike render solid
 #     ("T06868", "H02401", "P28737").
 # Both choices are RECORDED INFERENCES, flagged per series, and both are made
-# safe by PRD-PLATES §2.6: a separator-forgiving consumer collapses the two
+# safe by the plates spec §2.6: a separator-forgiving consumer collapses the two
 # printed forms to one canonical serial either way.
 jurisdiction: lt
 authority:
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ common:
       Regitra's general-use page gives format 5 as 185 x 210 mm; its
       diplomatic page gives the same slot as 182 x 210 mm. A 3 mm disagreement
       between two pages of the same authority is RECORDED, not averaged
-      (PRD-PLATES §5.3). Neither figure is traceable to an instrument here.
+      (the plates spec §5.3). Neither figure is traceable to an instrument here.
     source: "https://www.regitra.lt/en/services/state-number-plates/types-of-vehicle-registration-number-license-plates/of-general-use/"
   colours:
     hex_basis_note: >-
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ region_encoding_gap:
     accounts identify DIFFERENT POSITIONS in the mark. No Lithuanian
     instrument, and no Regitra page, was reached that settles it. Shipping a
     positional decode table while unsure WHICH POSITION it decodes would be the
-    precise failure PRD-PLATES §2.4 warns about — a decode table that makes the
+    precise failure the plates spec §2.4 warns about — a decode table that makes the
     parse API lie — so none is shipped, in either position.
   also_unresolved: >-
     Even taking the county reading at face value, the scheme is described as
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ out_of_scope:
       followed by 777, three identical letters with a low serial, and other
       premium patterns — in four priced groups. These are ORDINARY general-use
       marks in the ordinary general-use format, distinguished only by
-      desirability and price. Under PRD-PLATES §2.3 that is neither a format nor
+      desirability and price. Under the plates spec §2.3 that is neither a format nor
       a design nor a period difference, so it is not a series; a consumer that
       needs it wants a price list, not a plate record.
     source: "https://www.regitra.lt/en/services/state-number-plates/types-of-vehicle-registration-number-license-plates/exclusive/"
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ out_of_scope:
       that are being carried" — a repeater plate for a rear-mounted bicycle
       rack. It duplicates the towing vehicle's existing mark rather than
       carrying one of its own, so it has no serial grammar of its own, and under
-      PRD-PLATES §2.7 it would in any case be a `recall-only` echo of whatever
+      the plates spec §2.7 it would in any case be a `recall-only` echo of whatever
       series the car belongs to. Not authored.
     source: "https://www.regitra.lt/en/services/state-number-plates/types-of-vehicle-registration-number-license-plates/"
 
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ series:
         RECORDED INFERENCE. Regitra states the composition but not the printed
         separator. A gap between the letter and digit groups is shown in the
         authority's own plate imagery on the 520 x 110 blank, and is spelled
-        here as a space per PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 2. On the 300 x 150 blank the
+        here as a space per the plates spec §2.6 rule 2. On the 300 x 150 blank the
         mark is very likely set on two rows with no separator at all; a
         forgiving consumer collapses both forms to one serial.
     design:
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ series:
       foreground: "#000000"
       border: { color: "#000000", note: "Regitra: the edging, letters and numbers are black" }
       band: { side: left, color: "#003399", content: eu-stars+LT, hex_basis: observed }
-      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, content: "Vytis, the coat of arms of Lithuania, between the blue band and the letters on format 1; above the EU symbol on the band on the other formats", note: "PRD-PLATES §3 emblem rule: rendered as a neutral placeholder unless the artwork's licence is affirmatively clean" }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, content: "Vytis, the coat of arms of Lithuania, between the blue band and the letters on format 1; above the EU symbol on the band on the other formats", note: "The plates spec §3 emblem rule: rendered as a neutral placeholder unless the artwork's licence is affirmatively clean" }
       rear_differs: false
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
@@ -548,7 +548,7 @@ series:
           THE EARLIER YELLOW TAXI PLATE. Regitra states that the white standard
           described above was approved from 3 April 2018 and that yellow plates
           issued earlier remain valid and "don't have to be changed". Recorded
-          as a colour-only variant per PRD-PLATES §2.3 rather than as its own
+          as a colour-only variant per the plates spec §2.3 rather than as its own
           series, because the mark and the blanks are unchanged — only the
           ground colour differs. Its own start is the series start, 13 July 2006.
         sources:
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@ series:
         The third digit's four values are enumerated by the authority and are
         encoded nowhere else in this file; they are recorded here rather than as
         a decode table because a four-row enumeration is a `charset` fact, not a
-        table (PRD-PLATES §2.4 puts small mappings inline by design). The
+        table (the plates spec §2.4 puts small mappings inline by design). The
         MISSION-CODE mapping — which country is 01, which is 14 — is NOT
         published by Regitra and is NOT shipped; see notes.
       separator_note: >-

data/data/plates/lu.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/lu.yml — Luxembourg (PRD-PLATES gate L1, EU/EEA wave 2).
+# plates/lu.yml — Luxembourg (the plates spec gate L1, EU/EEA wave 2).
 #
 # ONE INSTRUMENT, READ END TO END, CARRIES THIS ENTIRE FILE. Every format,
 # every colour, every dimension, every special series, every historic design
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ series:
         to a cahier des charges approved by the minister, which is NOT published
         in the Memorial and was not reached. That delegation is the reason the
         separator position is spelled as the sanctioned separator-only class
-        `[- ]` (PRD-PLATES §2.8) rather than as a literal: the gap is real, the
+        `[- ]` (the plates spec §2.8) rather than as a literal: the gap is real, the
         glyph is unlegislated.
     design:
       plate: { w: 520, h: 110, unit: mm, thickness: [1, 1.5] }
@@ -249,7 +249,7 @@ series:
       background: { color: "#F9B700", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
       foreground: "#000000"
       band: { side: left, color: "#003399", hex_basis: observed, content: eu-stars+L }
-      note: "no design of its own — a personalised number is printed on the ordinary plate. It is a SERIES here rather than a sub-entry because its number grammar and its binding both differ (PRD-PLATES §2.3)."
+      note: "no design of its own — a personalised number is printed on the ordinary plate. It is a SERIES here rather than a sub-entry because its number grammar and its binding both differ (the plates spec §2.3)."
     region_encoding: none
     sources:
       - "https://data.legilux.public.lu/eli/etat/leg/rgd/2003/06/17/n2/jo/fr/pdf  # RGD 17-06-2003 art. 8 (the three series a personalised number may come from, the waiting list, transfer between the holder's vehicles, the 36-month reservation, inheritance at first degree, and the fees of 50 EUR on first grant / 24 EUR on transfer) and art. 9 §2 (the five renunciation outcomes). Accessed 2026-08-02"
@@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ series:
       institutional geography of Luxembourg City, written into a plate
       regulation. THE DECODE TABLE IS A GAP: the instrument states the
       MECHANISM (first group = the body) and publishes no codes, and no
-      Ministry of Foreign Affairs list was reached. PRD-PLATES puts diplomatic
+      Ministry of Foreign Affairs list was reached. The plates spec puts diplomatic
       decode tables at gate L4; this entry carries the mechanism so a table can
       be hung off it later without an id change.
 

data/data/plates/lv.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/lv.yml — Latvia (PRD-PLATES gate L1, EU/EEA wave 2). DRAFT for
+# plates/lv.yml — Latvia (the plates spec gate L1, EU/EEA wave 2). DRAFT for
 # verification: researched by an Opus L1 researcher, never applied directly.
 #
 # THE LATVIAN SOURCE CHAIN — THE FULL INSTRUMENT LINE, DATED TO THE DAY
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ common:
       practice rule the regulation does not contain: "Ja transportlīdzeklim
       iepriekš bija izsniegta E tipa numura zīme, veicot numuru maiņu, CSDD
       izsniedz C tipa numura zīmi." A divergence between the instrument and the
-      issuing authority, recorded and not averaged (PRD-PLATES §5.3).
+      issuing authority, recorded and not averaged (the plates spec §5.3).
     sources:
       - "https://likumi.lv/ta/id/222145-transportlidzeklu-registracijas-noteikumi  # 7. pielikums 1.1-1.7"
       - "https://www.csdd.lv/numura-zimju-apraksts/nr-zimju-tipi-19  # CSDD's type table and the E-to-C replacement practice"
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ region_encoding_gap:
     vehicle type) and its last digit (the year of validity); the trial plate's
     "IZM"; the diplomatic plate's "C"/"CC"/"CD"; and the military plate's
     "L"/"LA". Every one of those is encoded inline in the relevant series'
-    `charset`, which PRD-PLATES §2.4 makes the right home for a small mapping.
+    `charset`, which the plates spec §2.4 makes the right home for a small mapping.
     No Latvian instrument or CSDD page reached in this pass encodes region,
     district or era anywhere in a general-use mark.
   source: "https://likumi.lv/ta/id/222145-transportlidzeklu-registracijas-noteikumi  # 7. pielikums, read in full for positional semantics"
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ gaps:
     in 7. pielikums punkts 6. It is sold by the national standards body, its
     catalogue is JS-rendered, and no edition was obtained: not LVS 20-92, not
     LVS 20:2003, not /A1:2006, not LVS 20:2009 (the edition CSDD's current page
-    names). PRD-PLATES §4's SAE J686 posture applies exactly — never quote the
+    names). The plates spec §4's SAE J686 posture applies exactly — never quote the
     standard's values until it is bought. Consequence: this file carries NO
     character height and NO font for any Latvian series, and its ordinary-plate
     colours rest on CSDD's wording rather than on a specification.
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ series:
         "A tipa numura zīmēs burti no cipariem atdalīti ar horizontālu svītru."
         The horizontal stroke is prescribed for the A type ONLY; the B and C
         blanks carry the same mark with no stroke prescribed. The pattern
-        spells the A-type printed form, per PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 2, and a
+        spells the A-type printed form, per the plates spec §2.6 rule 2, and a
         separator-forgiving consumer recovers the B/C form.
     design:
       plate: { w: 520, h: 110, unit: mm }
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@ series:
         motorcycle takes the C type (240 x 130 mm) or the F type. The pattern
         therefore spells the mark solid — the same Latvian mark prints WITH a
         hyphen on a car and WITHOUT one on a motorcycle, which is exactly the
-        situation PRD-PLATES §2.6 exists to make safe.
+        situation the plates spec §2.6 exists to make safe.
     design:
       plate: { w: 240, h: 130, unit: mm }
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
@@ -850,7 +850,7 @@ series:
           this file does not assert it.
         dsl_collision: >-
           A GENUINE SCHEMA STRESSOR, RECORDED RATHER THAN WORKED AROUND
-          SILENTLY. PRD-PLATES §2.2 defines the human pattern DSL as 9=digit,
+          SILENTLY. The plates spec §2.2 defines the human pattern DSL as 9=digit,
           L=letter, everything else literal — so the DSL CANNOT SPELL A LITERAL
           "L" (nor a literal "9"). Latvia's military mark begins with exactly
           that letter. Because `pattern` must round-trip against `regex`, and
@@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ series:
           `issuing_grammar` so no information is lost, and it cannot live in
           `regex_strict` because §2.7 forbids a strict twin on a recall-only
           series. THE FIX IS A SCHEMA AMENDMENT (an escape for literal L/9 in
-          the DSL), not a data edit; flagged for PRD-PLATES §2.6.
+          the DSL), not a data edit; flagged for the plates spec §2.6.
     design:
       plate: { w: 520, h: 110, unit: mm }
       plate_variants:
@@ -921,4 +921,4 @@ series:
       so. No amending regulation was traced to the insertion of 4.8. This is the
       weakest date in the file and is flagged accordingly. Modelled as its own
       series because the DESIGN differs (blue symbols) even though the FORMAT
-      does not — PRD-PLATES §2.3's design limb.
+      does not — the plates spec §2.3's design limb.

data/data/plates/mc.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/mc.yml — Monaco (PRD-PLATES gate L1, microstates group).
+# plates/mc.yml — Monaco (the plates spec gate L1, microstates group).
 # DRAFT for verification. All primary text fetched from legimonaco.mc and the
 # Journal de Monaco archive, 2026-08-02.
 #
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ common:
       routière in its own right — ratified 6 June 1978, in force for Monaco
       6 June 1979. Art. 37.1 requires a distinguishing sign on the rear; Annexe
       3.1 makes it one to three Latin capitals, black on a white ellipse; and
-      Annexe 3.3 is the provision PRD-PLATES §4 flags — "Le signe distinctif ne
+      Annexe 3.3 is the provision the plates spec §4 flags — "Le signe distinctif ne
       doit pas être incorporé dans le numéro d'immatriculation, ni apposé de
       façon telle qu'il puisse créer une confusion avec ce dernier ou nuire à sa
       lisibilité."
@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ common:
       The "écusson fuselé rouge et blanc" — the lozengy red-and-white shield of
       the Grimaldi arms — is on the front plate and on the estampille. On the
       princely série spéciale, "les armoiries princières remplacent l'écusson
-      rouge et blanc et l'estampille". PRD-PLATES §3's placeholder rule applies;
+      rouge et blanc et l'estampille". The plates spec §3's placeholder rule applies;
       no clean licence route to the Grimaldi arms was located.
   not_modelled:
     - "NO POLICE SERIES EXISTS IN THE LAW. Art. 6 lists ME (Ministère d'État) and CN (Conseil National) and no Sûreté Publique series at all. The commonly-repeated 'SP + two digits' for police motorcycles has no primary basis located and is NOT modelled — a searched-for negative, not an oversight."
@@ -970,7 +970,7 @@ series:
       plate: { w: 455, h: 85, unit: mm, note: "the adhesive band for cars — 'longueur : 45,5 cm ; largeur : 8,5 cm'. THE ONLY OVERALL DIMENSION IN THE WHOLE INSTRUMENT, because a band is not a deposited model." }
       plate_variants:
         - { w: 205, h: 100, unit: mm, note: "motorcycles — 'longueur : 20,5 cm ; largeur : 10 cm'" }
-      font: { name: "Swiss721 BT", note: "NAMED IN THE INSTRUMENT — the only typeface named anywhere in the microstates group, and a licensing question PRD-PLATES §6 must answer before any render uses it. Swiss721 is a Bitstream commercial font; the render layer uses the schematic fallback." }
+      font: { name: "Swiss721 BT", note: "NAMED IN THE INSTRUMENT — the only typeface named anywhere in the microstates group, and a licensing question the plates spec §6 must answer before any render uses it. Swiss721 is a Bitstream commercial font; the render layer uses the schematic fallback." }
       band: { side: none }
       emblem: { present: false }
       rear_differs: false

data/data/plates/mt.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/mt.yml — Malta (PRD-PLATES gate L1, wave 2).
+# plates/mt.yml — Malta (the plates spec gate L1, wave 2).
 #
 # THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT MALTA IS THE LETTER BLOCK, AND IT IS PUBLISHED.
 # Most small jurisdictions allocate class-marking letters by unpublished
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ letter_blocks:
       write. Secondary sources describe a "GM 99" form; no instrument supports
       the two digits.
   lapsed:
-    note: "blocks that were prescribed and then withdrawn — kept because plates issued under them remain on the road, exactly as the period discipline in PRD-PLATES §2.4 requires for decode rows"
+    note: "blocks that were prescribed and then withdrawn — kept because plates issued under them remain on the road, exactly as the period discipline in the plates spec §2.4 requires for decode rows"
     blocks:
     - { block: BY, meaning: "route buses", period: "2004-2018", note: "replaced by BUS by L.N. 139 of 2018 s.4(a). The familiar DBY / EBY / FBY marks of the old Malta buses are instances of this rule with a varying leading letter — not three separate blocks" }
     - { block: CY, meaning: "coaches", period: "2004-2011", note: "replaced by PY by L.N. 110 of 2011 s.6(b)" }
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ series:
           for annotations. Unlike Cyprus, which at least publishes drawn
           specimens, Malta publishes neither a name nor a dimensioned drawing.
           The letterforms are therefore, on the face of the law, unconstrained.
-          PRD-PLATES §6 posture: the render layer picks a free face and records
+          The plates spec §6 posture: the render layer picks a free face and records
           the substitution, because there is no statutory drawing to derive from.
         license: "n/a — nothing prescribed"
       rear_differs: false
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ series:
       STATING: the EU band did not arrive with that instrument but with L.N. 476
       of 2004 on 1 MAY 2004, Malta's EU accession day — so there was a
       seven-week window in which this exact format was issued WITHOUT the band.
-      That is a genuine design difference and under PRD-PLATES §2.3 it would
+      That is a genuine design difference and under the plates spec §2.3 it would
       merit its own series, but `period` is modelled in INTEGER YEARS and both
       dates fall in 2004, so the two are indistinguishable in this schema and
       are recorded as one series with the sequence written into the sources
@@ -851,4 +851,4 @@ series:
       deserves a shape to match, clearly labelled recall-only. PRE-1952 MALTA IS
       NOT MODELLED: the Motor Vehicles Regulations 1948 and the calesse-era
       registrations that secondary sources mention for the 19th century are L4
-      historical depth under PRD-PLATES §7 and no primary was consulted.
+      historical depth under the plates spec §7 and no primary was consulted.

data/data/plates/mx.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/mx.yml — Mexico (PRD-PLATES gate L3).
+# plates/mx.yml — Mexico (the plates spec gate L3).
 #
 # EVERY format, dimension, character-metric, alphabet and series-allocation
 # claim in this file comes from ONE primary instrument and its predecessor,
@@ -69,14 +69,14 @@
 #    fix is a REPLACEMENT cycle (canje) whose phase differs per state; the
 #    widely repeated "Mexican states redesign their plates every three years"
 #    is the consequence, not the rule, and the artwork of a given state in a
-#    given trienio is NOT modelled here (PRD-PLATES §2.5).
+#    given trienio is NOT modelled here (the plates spec §2.5).
 #
 # 4. THE HYPHENS ARE PHYSICAL. NOM Apéndice A, under every figure, verbatim:
 #    "Las dimensiones de los guiones serán de 16 x 5.6." — the group separator
 #    is a stamped 16 × 5.6 mm bar, not typography, and 5.1.4.3 says the figures
 #    "contienen un guión o dos guiones de separación entre letras y dígitos".
 #    Every regex here therefore spells the hyphen as a MANDATORY literal
-#    (PRD-PLATES §2.6 rule 2: regexes are written in printed form). The
+#    (the plates spec §2.6 rule 2: regexes are written in printed form). The
 #    five-character motorcycle formats print NO separator and carry none.
 #
 # 5. FRONT AND REAR DIFFER — BY A LETTER, NOT A COLOUR. NOM 5.3.5, verbatim:
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ common:
       figuras, distintivos o leyendas que dificulten su lectura."
     font_posture: >-
       The glyph shapes are STATUTORY DRAWINGS (figuras 36-39 of Apéndice A
-      Normativo), not a named typeface — the same posture PRD-PLATES §6 records
+      Normativo), not a named typeface — the same posture the plates spec §6 records
       for the UK, Germany and Spain. No licensable font is mandated and none is
       recorded here.
     source: "https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5442476&fecha=24/06/2016  # 5.1.3.1, 5.1.3.2, 5.1.4.3 (guiones 16 x 5.6)"
@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       AMBULANCIAS and BOMBEROS. Tabla C gives them two rows and ONE order
       (AA-000-AA), and Apéndice A gives them ONE figure (34), so under
-      PRD-PLATES §2.3 they are one series with a shared format and design rather
+      the plates spec §2.3 they are one series with a shared format and design rather
       than two — the color-only-variant rule applied to a leyenda-only variant.
 
   - id: mx-civil-protection-2016
@@ -1036,7 +1036,7 @@ series:
       SISTEMA NACIONAL DE PROTECCIÓN CIVIL — the ONLY series in this file whose
       colours the NOM prescribes, which is why it is the only one carrying a
       background hex. The hexes are `observed` renderings of the NAMED Pantone
-      references (200 C red, Cool Gray 10 grey): PRD-PLATES §6 lets us build to a
+      references (200 C red, Cool Gray 10 grey): The plates spec §6 lets us build to a
       colour standard and forbids reproducing it, and Pantone's own coordinates
       are a licensed dataset, so the numbered colour is cited and the hex is
       marked observed — the same posture plates/gb.yml takes for BS AU 145e.
@@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@ series:
     notes: >-
       TRASLADO NACIONAL — the federal transfer/ferry plate for moving an
       unregistered vehicle across the country, which is Mexico's `temporary`
-      class in the PRD vocabulary sense (short-validity, movement-only). Distinct
+      class in the spec vocabulary sense (short-validity, movement-only). Distinct
       from the state DEMOSTRACIÓN plates above, which are bound to a dealer
       rather than to a journey.
 

data/data/plates/my.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# plates/my.yml — Malaysia (PRD-PLATES gate L3). DRAFT for verification.
+# plates/my.yml — Malaysia (the plates spec gate L3). DRAFT for verification.
 #
 # ===========================================================================
 # THE CENTRAL SOURCING FACT, STATED FIRST BECAUSE IT SHAPES EVERY ENTRY
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@
 # the CURRENT format of every Malaysian state in one pass. Its readings are
 # recorded per row in plates/_decode/my-index-marks.yml and drive the two
 # standard series below. This is as close to a registration-corpus test
-# (PRD-PLATES §5.2) as a jurisdiction without open registry data can get.
+# (the plates spec §5.2) as a jurisdiction without open registry data can get.
 #
 # WHAT THE SNAPSHOT PROVES, mechanically, from 28 successful readings:
 #   * TWO live arrangements coexist nationwide, not one.
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@
 # THE EXCLUDED LETTERS — AND A FOLKLORE CORRECTION THIS FILE MAKES EXPLICITLY
 # ===========================================================================
 # The rule Malaysia actually runs, per both the English and Malay Wikipedia
-# articles (the mandatory finding aid, PRD-PLATES §4) and CONSISTENT WITH every
+# articles (the mandatory finding aid, the plates spec §4) and CONSISTENT WITH every
 # one of the 28 live JPJ readings above: the letters I and O are never issued
 # (confusable with 1 and 0) and Z is reserved for military vehicles. The Malay
 # article states it directly — "Huruf I dan O ditiadakan daripada urutan abjad
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@
 # NOTE THE ONE PLACE THE EXCLUSION IS NOT VISIBLE: it is an ISSUING rule, not a
 # spelling rule, so `format.regex` cannot carry it (the lint generates "I" and
 # "O" from `pattern`). It lives in `format.regex_strict` on every series that
-# has one, which is exactly what PRD-PLATES §2.7 built the twin for.
+# has one, which is exactly what the plates spec §2.7 built the twin for.
 #
 # ===========================================================================
 # WHAT IS DELIBERATELY NOT MODELLED
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@
 # (FA, FB, FC, FD, FE, FF, FFF, FG, FH), university series, NGO series, event
 # series, the national "MALAYSIA 1-9999" series. Each is an ORDINARY
 # registration whose mark was auctioned; none has its own format, design or
-# period. PRD-PLATES §2.5 excludes exactly this, so the programme is recorded
+# period. The plates spec §2.5 excludes exactly this, so the programme is recorded
 # once, as a class note on my-standard-prefix (see `special_series` in
 # `common`), and no series is authored for any individual release. The one
 # exception is `my-jpjeplate-ev-2024`, which is a genuinely different PLATE
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ instrument:
     Chambers. Unless and until reprinted pursuant to the powers of the
     Commissioner of Law Revision under subsection 14(1) of the Revision of Laws
     Act 1968 [Act 1], this text is NOT AN AUTHENTIC TEXT." Recorded because
-    PRD-PLATES §5.3 says the authority is the authority: this is the authority's
+    the plates spec §5.3 says the authority is the authority: this is the authority's
     own updated text, published by the authority, flagged by the authority as
     non-authentic. Every quotation above and below is from it.
   sections_used:
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ charset_defaults:
     the Malay- and English-language Wikipedia articles and is CONSISTENT WITH
     all 28 live JPJ readings of 3 August 2026, none of which contains I, O or
     Z. Tagged `secondary-wikipedia` wherever it is load-bearing, per
-    PRD-PLATES §4.
+    the plates spec §4.
   digits_note: >-
     "No leading zeroes permitted" is stated by the English Wikipedia article
     and is corroborated by every one of the 28 live JPJ readings (859, 1644,
@@ -283,9 +283,9 @@ common:
       "MALAYSIA 1-9999" series, and well over a hundred others) is an ORDINARY
       registration under my-standard-prefix or my-standard-suffix whose mark
       was auctioned rather than allocated in sequence. No separate series is
-      authored for any of them (PRD-PLATES §2.5); a consumer wanting the
+      authored for any of them (the plates spec §2.5); a consumer wanting the
       programme index should treat it as the Malaysian analogue of a US
-      specialty-plate index, which PRD-PLATES puts at L2/L4.
+      specialty-plate index, which the plates spec puts at L2/L4.
     statutory_basis: "Act 333 s. 66(1)(jj), verbatim: 'to prescribe the procedures relating to tender of registration numbers'"
     source: "https://lom.agc.gov.my/ilims/upload/portal/akta/outputaktap/1871744_BI/Act%20333_Final_15%20Oct%202023%20(25.3.24).pdf  # s. 66(1)(jj). Accessed 2026-08-02"
 
@@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ series:
         NO SEPARATOR GLYPH is prescribed by anything located, and Malaysian
         plates print a GAP between the letter group and the number group. The
         space in `pattern` is that gap; every regex accepts it as optional and
-        also accepts a hyphen, per PRD-PLATES §2.8 (a separator-only class).
+        also accepts a hyphen, per the plates spec §2.8 (a separator-only class).
     design:
       background: { color: "#000000", finish: non-reflective, hex_basis: observed }
       foreground: "#FFFFFF"
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ series:
         Arial Bold with Calisto MT Italic and Franklin Gothic Bold as
         alternates; the diagram is an image and was not read in this pass.
         Charles Wright and FE-Schrift are both common in the wild and both are
-        aftermarket choices, not standards. PRD-PLATES §6's schematic-render
+        aftermarket choices, not standards. The plates spec §6's schematic-render
         fallback applies.
     region_encoding: "plates/_decode/my-index-marks.yml"
     sources:
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@ series:
           Sarawak to prevent collision with the division prefixes; that
           refinement is NOT carried in regex_strict because the live sample
           contains a Q suffix (SU 7665 Q, Keningau) which contradicts it.
-          Recorded as a disagreement, not averaged (PRD-PLATES §5.3).
+          Recorded as a disagreement, not averaged (the plates spec §5.3).
       separator_note: "two printed gaps, both optional in the regexes and both spelled as separator-only classes"
     design:
       background: { color: "#000000", finish: non-reflective, hex_basis: observed }
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ series:
       Sabah and Sarawak arrangement, it is now also Johor's (the J…J series),
       Langkawi's (KV) and was Kuala Lumpur's during the W run-out before the V
       series began. Separate series from my-standard-prefix because the FORMAT
-      differs (PRD-PLATES §2.3); same statutory frame, same colours, same
+      differs (the plates spec §2.3); same statutory frame, same colours, same
       period, and both are live — which is why both carry distinct notes and
       the lint's overlap rule is satisfied honestly rather than by accident.
       period.start 1987 is the Act in force, not the arrangement's origin; the
@@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ series:
       pattern_note: >-
         Country code, rank/serial number, and the literal DC. The two numeric
         groups and the DC marking are printed as three groups; the country-code
-        group's own table is a RECORDED GAP (PRD-PLATES puts diplomatic decode
+        group's own table is a RECORDED GAP (the plates spec puts diplomatic decode
         tables at L4) and \d{1,3} is a practical bound, not a sourced one. The
         RANK BLOCK of the second group IS sourced, in detail, and is carried in
         plates/_decode/my-index-marks.yml.
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ series:
         - { name: country_code, note: "the sending state's code — table not located, recorded gap" }
         - { name: rank_number, note: "allocated by diplomatic rank: 01 head of mission's official car, 02/03 head of mission's personal car, 04 deputy chief of mission / deputy high commissioner / minister, 05 minister counsellor, 06-09 counsellor, 10-19 first secretary, 20-29 second secretary, 30-39 third secretary, 40-59 attaché (including military advisers, trade representatives and defence advisers), 60-99 a diplomat's SECOND duty-free car, 101 and above vehicles registered in the name of the mission — Wisma Putra, Protocol Department, paras 6.4, 6.6, 6.8" }
         - { name: marking, value: "DC", note: "Diplomatic Corps" }
-      separator_note: "printed as three groups; the regexes spell the gap as an emitted separator class per PRD-PLATES §2.8"
+      separator_note: "printed as three groups; the regexes spell the gap as an emitted separator class per the plates spec §2.8"
     design:
       background: { color: "#CC0000", finish: non-reflective, hex_basis: observed }
       foreground: "#FFFFFF"
@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ series:
           or 'UN' respectively." So RED means a PERSON (an accredited diplomat);
           BLACK means an INSTITUTION (the mission, the consular corps, a UN
           office). Colour-only variant of the same format and period, hence a
-          sub-entry per PRD-PLATES §2.3.
+          sub-entry per the plates spec §2.3.
         sources:
           - "https://web.archive.org/web/20140714163606/http://www.kln.gov.my/web/guest/diplomat  # Ministry of Foreign Affairs Malaysia, Protocol > Foreign Missions > Diplomat, 'MOTOR VEHICLES' para 6.9 'Colour Identification Of Registration Plate'. Accessed 2026-08-02"
     region_encoding: "plates/_decode/my-index-marks.yml"
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ series:
       note: >-
         The MARK is an ordinary Malaysian registration — this is a different
         PLATE, not a different numbering system, which is exactly the
-        PRD-PLATES §2.3 test for a series of its own (design differs, format
+        the plates spec §2.3 test for a series of its own (design differs, format
         and period do not).
     design:
       plate_note: >-
@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ series:
       background: { color: "#FFFFFF", finish: retroreflective, hex_basis: observed }
       foreground: "#000000"
       band: { side: left, color: "#009000", content: "green stripe + Jalur Gemilang (national flag) + the international distinguishing code MAL", hex_basis: observed }
-      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, note: "the national flag is a state emblem — PRD-PLATES §3 placeholder rule applies, artwork not reproduced" }
+      emblem: { present: true, rendered: placeholder, note: "the national flag is a state emblem — the plates spec §3 placeholder rule applies, artwork not reproduced" }
       rear_differs: false
       features: >-
         Embossed characters in FE-Schrift on a white retroreflective ground with