diff --git a/protocol/purpose_and_scope.md b/protocol/purpose_and_scope.md
index 70dba143..79c0261b 100644
--- a/protocol/purpose_and_scope.md
+++ b/protocol/purpose_and_scope.md
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ def somefunc(df, ...):
     # From now on, use `df` methods and `namespace` functions/objects
 ```
 
-
 ### History
 
 Dataframe libraries in several programming language exist, such as
diff --git a/spec/purpose_and_scope.md b/spec/purpose_and_scope.md
index a08025a6..01684752 100644
--- a/spec/purpose_and_scope.md
+++ b/spec/purpose_and_scope.md
@@ -359,3 +359,11 @@ completed such an implementation may, and are encouraged to, provide details on
 the level of (non-)conformance. For details on how to do this, see
 [Verification - measuring conformance](verification_test_suite.md).
 
+Libraries which implement the Standard in a separate namespace
+are required to provide the following methods:
+- ``__dataframe_standard__``: used for converting a non-compliant dataframe to a compliant one;
+- ``__column_standard__``: used for converting a non-compliant column to a compliant one.
+
+For example, pandas would have ``pandas.DataFrame.__dataframe_standard__`` and
+``pandas.Series.__column_standard__``.
+