TIP Protocol Whitepaper, Version 1.0 | Published Today

The TIP Protocol Whitepaper Version 1.0 is Published | 140 Pages, Eleven Parts, Twelve Appendices, Licensed CC BY 4.0

Today we publish the TIP Protocol Whitepaper, Version 1.0, by Dinesh Mendhe. One hundred forty pages setting out the post-quantum, federated, multi-stakeholder open standard for verified human identity and content provenance on the internet. PDF, HTML, EPUB, and DOCX are available now at theailab.org/whitepaper.

The Trust Identity Protocol Whitepaper Version 1.0 is the canonical public specification of the open standard that lets any real person prove they are human, and any piece of content declare how it was made. The whitepaper documents the three-layer architecture (TIP-ID, TIP-CONTENT, TIP-TRUST), the post-quantum cryptographic foundation (ML-DSA-65, ML-KEM-768, SLH-DSA), the federated DAG, the AI Trust Council governance posture under Article 95(3) of the EU AI Act, the regulatory alignment across the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, New Zealand, and India, the TIPCL-1.0 licensing schedule with conversion to Apache 2.0 in 2031, the universal seventeen-type content taxonomy, the verified endpoint inventory matching the canonical specification v5.0, the Trust Score tier system (HIGHLY_TRUSTED, TRUSTED, REVIEW_ADVISED, LOW_TRUST, NOT_TRUSTED), and the public reception of the protocol to date.

Read the full essay at https://theailab.org/insights/announcing-the-tip-protocol-whitepaper-v1