The protocol
TIP — the Trust Intelligence Protocol
A machine judgment leaves a record behind it. TIP is the published rulebook for that record: what it states, how it seals, and how anyone checks it. Five methods, six statutes, all of it public.
The five methods
RECORD — States the claim and its evidence
Writing the judgment down: what was concluded, on what evidence, by which method. The disagreements go in too.
SEAL — Hashes the canonical bytes
Sealing turns the whole record into a fingerprint. Change one character and the fingerprint no longer matches.
ANCHOR — Commits beyond our own reach
The fingerprint is lodged with a party that has no stake in it, so the record can be checked later without trusting us.
VERIFY — Checked without asking the issuer
Anyone holding a record can check it themselves. Censio is not consulted.
SUPERSEDE — Replaces without erasing
When the evidence changes, a new record replaces the old one, and the old one stays readable.
The six statutes
TWDP — Time-weighted decision
How a conclusion's weight changes as the evidence under it ages, and when age alone is grounds for re-assessment.
CDRP — Chronological decision replay
Reconstructing what the system would have concluded at a past moment, from the evidence it actually held then — not from what is known now.
MWCP — Machine warrant chain
The mandate an autonomous agent acted under, the chain that authorised it, and what happens to records issued after a mandate is revoked.
OWRP — Outcome witness and resolution
What actually happened, recorded against what was predicted, so that confidence can be calibrated against outcomes rather than asserted.
EPCP — Evidence provenance and custody
Where each piece of evidence came from, who held it between there and here, and how a contested source is carried rather than discarded.
TIFP — Trust interchange and federation
How a record moves between institutions without either trusting the other, and how a foreign anchor is treated.
What is not published here
What is not published here
The conformance test vectors and the reference implementation are issued under agreement to implementers, not published on this page. The specification itself is public; the suite that proves an implementation conforms is not.
The methods
What the protocol does to a judgment.
The statutes
What the protocol requires of the record afterwards.
The surfaces
Where a record is written, read and checked.