AI Trust Council™
The Council is the public-record-keeping, parameter-setting, and dispute-adjudicating body for the Trust Identity Protocol. Five constituencies, equal voice, one protocol.
A journalist in Nairobi has the same protocol vote as a Fortune 500 platform in San Francisco. Governance power comes from your role in the ecosystem, not the size of your check. Public Charter. Public ceremony every June 1. Every decision immutably recorded on the federated DAG.
recognising that the most consequential question of our era is no longer whether a piece of content was published, but whether the person who signed it was real, and whether their claim about how it was made is true,
and recognising that the answer to this question must not be controlled by any single company, country, regulator, or platform, but must instead be sustained by a public-record-keeping body that is open in its participation, transparent in its proceedings, and immutable in its recordings,
do hereby establish the AI Trust Council as the constitutional body responsible for the Trust Identity Protocol, with equal voting weight across creators, institutions, publishers, operators, and partners, governed by the five Constitutional Principles articulated in Article I of this Charter, with public proceedings, public records, and the right of any individual or organisation in any jurisdiction to participate on equal terms.
These are the foundation of the Council and the protocol. They can be amended only by a 4-of-5 supermajority of constituencies and only after a public consultation period of no less than ninety days.
One constituency, one vote on protocol matters. Five seats. No constituency can override the other four.
Every TIP-ID corresponds to a single verified human being. The cryptographic deduplication of identity is sacrosanct.
The AI Trust Registry is free for everyone to query, in every jurisdiction, in perpetuity. No paywall, no rate limit, no authentication.
The TIP Protocol specification is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Any party may read, implement, fork, or compete with the protocol.
No company, country, individual, or interest group controls the Council. Governance power flows from constituency role, not capital.
All five articles · amendable only by 4-of-5 supermajority + 90-day public consultation
Each constituency represents a distinct role in the TIP Protocol ecosystem. All five carry equal governance weight on protocol matters. Within each constituency, one member casts one vote. The Council can act only with majority approval from at least three of five constituencies.
Constituency 1
Individual content creators, journalists, researchers, artists, photographers, writers, podcasters, scientists.
Why join
A real protocol vote regardless of your economic size. Your vote weighs the same as a Fortune 500 platform's.
Examples
Constituency 2
Universities, newsrooms, NGOs, governments, libraries, museums, research institutes, civil society organisations.
Why join
Legitimacy signal for institutional AI deployments. Your participation anchors the protocol to public-interest stewardship.
Examples
Constituency 3
Companies and organisations that deploy TIP Protocol to verify and sign published content at commercial scale.
Why join
Market differentiation in an era of AI-generated content. Participation in the parameter votes that affect your products.
Examples
Constituency 4
Verification Providers (all categories), node operators, federated-infrastructure providers, accredited audit firms.
Why join
Accreditation is the gateway to operating in the federated network. Regulated-market access on equal terms.
Examples
Constituency 5
Large platforms, enterprise integrators, standards bodies, cross-industry consortia, sovereign governance partners.
Why join
A seat at the table where the global AI trust standard is written. Shape the future of the protocol with the rest of the world.
Examples
The independent stewards of the Trust Identity Protocol, drawn from higher education, research, journalism, fact-checking, enterprise AI law, and the creator industries. Each seat is named, sourced, and publicly disclosed.
Subject-matter experts who advise the Council on specific workstreams. Their role is consultative.
The operational work of the Council is delegated to four Standing Committees. Each committee draws members from across the five constituencies and reports to the full Council at the Annual Trust Summit.
Admits Verification Providers and Node Operators. Audits compliance with security baselines, jurisdiction requirements, and the VP Code of Conduct. Revokes accreditation for substantiated misconduct under Section 6.5 of the protocol.
Cadence · Quarterly accreditation reviews + ad hoc urgent revocations.
Maintains the TIP Protocol specification (CC-BY 4.0). Proposes and reviews protocol parameter changes, the Trust Score formula, the Origin Code taxonomy, and cryptographic primitive rotation. Coordinates with ISO, NIST, ENISA, ITU, IETF, and W3C.
Cadence · Continuous. Parameter changes ratified at the Annual Trust Summit.
Operates Trust Tribunals for Origin Code disputes, repeat-infringer cases, and VP misconduct allegations. Coordinates with law enforcement under Section 15.24 of the protocol Terms. Publishes the annual Trust & Safety transparency report.
Cadence · Tribunal panels rotate monthly; transparency report annual.
Ensures equitable global access. Oversees free-tier sustainability for Creators and Institutions. Runs the annual Public Access Report. Holds the public-record commitments (warrant canary, funding disclosure, decision archive).
Cadence · Continuous. Public Access Report published every May 3.
The Council operates on a predictable annual rhythm. Each moment is public, recorded, and inspectable. Parameter changes propose and ratify on this cadence so that participants, regulators, and the public can plan around them.
Annual public co-signing of the protocol's parameter set for the year. Five constituencies sign cryptographically. The signed block is broadcast globally and is the immutable foundation of the year's protocol operation.
Each committee meets quarterly in public session. Agenda, minutes, and votes are recorded on the DAG. Anyone in the world may attend as a non-voting observer.
Disputes are adjudicated by rotating juries drawn from the five constituencies. Tribunal decisions are recorded immutably on the DAG, subject to privacy redactions where law requires.
Multi-day public convening. Parameter changes ratified. New members admitted. AI Trust Awards conferred. Standing Committee reports presented. Anyone may attend; constituency members vote.
Annual transparency report. Public Access Report. Trust & Safety Report. Funding disclosure. Warrant canary refresh. All decisions of the year are publicly archived.
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The Council handles disputes through Trust Tribunals. Origin Code challenges, repeat-infringer cases, and Verification Provider misconduct are adjudicated by rotating juries drawn from across the five constituencies, with public reasoning and the right of appeal.
Each Trust Tribunal panel is drawn at random from the five constituencies. No constituency can dominate a single panel; no panel is permanent.
Tribunal decisions are recorded immutably on the DAG. Reasoning is published in plain language. Privacy redactions only where law requires.
Any party may appeal a Stage 2 Tribunal decision to a Stage 3 Expert Panel composed of cross-constituency reviewers, under the protocol's Section 5.4 framework.
Tribunal outcomes are signed by panelists' TIP-IDs. Anyone querying the AI Trust Registry can verify the chain of decision-making back to the panel.
The Annual Trust Summit is the public convening of the AI Trust Council. Held in a different jurisdiction each year, broadcast globally, attendable by anyone, the Summit is where the Council's work for the year is ratified.
The Council recognises contribution, not capital. Awards are conferred by a cross-constituency selection committee and announced at the Annual Trust Summit. No award can be purchased; no constituency receives awards by quota.
Recipients
An organisation across any constituency
Rationale
Exemplary stewardship of the protocol during the preceding year. Recognises decisions, contributions, or sustained operational excellence that strengthened the Council's mission.
2027 Annual Trust Summit
Recipients
An organisation or individual serving equitable access
Rationale
Demonstrated commitment to keeping the protocol and AI trust infrastructure accessible to under-served regions, languages, or communities.
2027 Annual Trust Summit
Recipients
Individuals or organisations with 5+ years of service
Rationale
Sustained contribution to the Council's standing committees, working groups, tribunals, or technical specification work.
Earliest 2031 (five years after Genesis)
Recipients
Charter signatories
Rationale
Time-limited recognition for those who joined a constituency before May 3, 2030, and participated in the foundational work of the Council. Cannot be conferred after the designation closes.
Effective immediately, closes 2030-01-28
The AI Trust Council is the steward of a constellation of public-interest standards. Each is independently versioned, separately licensed, and collectively designed to make verified human authorship and AI-content provenance practical at internet scale.
The open technical standard for verified human identity and content provenance. Versioned, public, and forkable.
Learn more›The umbrella of cryptographic identifiers under TIP Protocol. TIP-ID for verified people; CTID for content registrations.
Learn more›Independent per-asset audit and certification. Three seal tiers: Sentinel for foundational governance, Guardian for human-centric AI, Sovereign for critical infrastructure.
Learn more›The free, federated, post-quantum-secure public lookup surface for every TIP-ID and CTID in the network. No account, no API key, no rate limit.
Learn more›Trust requires transparency. The Council commits to six standing transparency obligations, each of which can be inspected, verified, or appealed by any party in any jurisdiction.
Every Standing Committee meeting publishes minutes within seven (7) days. Minutes are signed by the chair's TIP-ID and recorded immutably on the federated DAG.
Three annual reports each May 3: the Public Access Report, the Trust & Safety Report, and the Transparency & Funding Report.
All Council operational funding sources are publicly disclosed, including any commercial sponsorships, government grants, and partnership agreements above a published de minimis threshold.
The Council maintains a public warrant canary, refreshed at least quarterly, signaling the absence of legal process compelling silent disclosure of Council records.
Where a constituency votes against a measure, the dissenting reasoning is recorded in the public minutes. No constituency is silenced by majority.
Any individual or organisation in any jurisdiction may attend Standing Committee meetings as a non-voting observer. Observer registration is free.
The internet has never had a constitutional body for human authorship. We have working groups for protocols, standards bodies for technology, and platforms for distribution. We have never had a public-record-keeping institution whose mission is the integrity of the question, “Who wrote this, and how?”
That question was inconvenient when content was scarce. In the age of generative AI it is existential. Whether you are a journalist filing a story, a researcher publishing findings, a teacher grading essays, a regulator drafting policy, or a citizen reading a feed, the question of authorship has moved from background fact to load-bearing infrastructure.
The AI Trust Council exists to answer that question on a public record, in every jurisdiction, on equal terms for everyone. It is the institution we did not need until now. It is the institution the next century of the internet cannot do without.
