Trust Identity Protocol (TIP) Whitepaper, Version 1.0
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TIP Protocol Whitepaper<br>Trust Identity Protocol (TIP)<br>An Open Standard for Verified Human Identity and Content Provenance on the Internet<br>Whitepaper, Version 1.0 (Third Printing)<br>By Dinesh Mendhe for The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc.<br>Published June 16, 2026, 140 pages, licensed under CC BY 4.0.<br>DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20722378<br>Read or download<br>Choose any format. The PDF is the recommended canonical citation source.<br>PDF<br>760 KB<br>Recommended for reading and citation<br>HTML<br>461 KB<br>Open in browser, accessible<br>EPUB<br>298 KB<br>E-reader format<br>DOCX<br>163 KB<br>Editable Word version
What the whitepaper covers<br>Eleven Parts and twelve Appendices setting out the protocol's identity layer (TIP-ID), content provenance layer (TIP-CONTENT with CNA-2.2), and reputation layer (TIP-TRUST).<br>Post-quantum cryptography from genesis · ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204), ML-KEM-768 (FIPS 203), SLH-DSA (FIPS 205).<br>Federated DAG architecture · ten Founding Node Operators in four jurisdictions, comprising seven signed and three in accession at the date of publication.<br>AI Trust Council governance · independent multi-stakeholder body, Charter-ratified, convened on May 3, 2026.<br>Regulatory alignment · EU AI Act (Articles 3, 5, 50, 56, 95), GDPR, DSA, eIDAS 2.0, NIS2 Directive, Cyber Resilience Act, Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI, and corresponding instruments in the United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand, and India.<br>Article 95(3) of the EU AI Act · multi-stakeholder code-of-conduct framing.<br>TIPCL-1.0 licensing · free for individuals, nonprofits, educational institutions, government entities, and journalism organisations · nine-tier commercial schedule for revenue-bearing deployments.
Permanent record<br>This whitepaper is permanently archived on Zenodo (operated by CERN) with the following persistent identifiers:<br>Version DOI (this printing): 10.5281/zenodo.20722378<br>Concept DOI (always resolves to the latest printing): 10.5281/zenodo.20722377<br>Zenodo record: zenodo.org/records/20722378<br>Author ORCID: 0000-0003-1158-3259
Suggested citation<br>APA: Mendhe, D. (2026). Trust Identity Protocol (TIP): An Open Standard for Verified Human Identity and Content Provenance on the Internet (1.0). The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20722378<br>IEEE: D. Mendhe, “Trust Identity Protocol (TIP): An Open Standard for Verified Human Identity and Content Provenance on the Internet,” Version 1.0, The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc., Wilmington, DE, 2026. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20722378<br>Chicago: Mendhe, Dinesh. 2026. Trust Identity Protocol (TIP): An Open Standard for Verified Human Identity and Content Provenance on the Internet. Version 1.0. Wilmington, DE: The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20722378.<br>BibTeX: @techreport{mendhe2026tip,<br>author = {Mendhe, Dinesh},<br>title = {Trust Identity Protocol (TIP): An Open Standard for Verified Human Identity and Content Provenance on the Internet},<br>institution = {The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc.},<br>year = {2026},<br>month = {6},<br>version = {1.0},<br>doi = {10.5281/zenodo.20722378},<br>url = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20722378},
Document status<br>Version 1.0, third printing. Published June 16, 2026. Original publication June 4, 2026. Next review January 2027, concurrent with the inaugural AI Trust Council annual transparency report.<br>Errata may be reported to whitepaper-errata@theailab.org and are published at theailab.org/whitepaper/errata.
License<br>This whitepaper is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Implementations of the technical framework are licensed under TIPCL-1.0.
Frequently asked questions<br>What is the Trust Identity Protocol (TIP) Whitepaper?<br>The Trust Identity Protocol (TIP) Whitepaper, Version 1.0 is the canonical 140-page open specification of the Trust Identity Protocol, an open standard for verified human identity and content provenance on the internet. It is authored by Dinesh Mendhe and published by The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc. The whitepaper is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) and is permanently archived on Zenodo (operated by CERN) under DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20722378.
Who is the author of the TIP Protocol Whitepaper?<br>Dinesh Mendhe is the author. He is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive of The AI Lab Intelligence Unobscured, Inc., a Delaware C-Corporation. His ORCID iD is 0000-0003-1158-3259 and his Wikidata identifier is Q139715509.
How do I cite the TIP Protocol Whitepaper?<br>Mendhe, D. (2026). Trust Identity Protocol (TIP): An Open Standard for Verified Human Identity and Content...