Protocol-level clarity for identity
Identity as a personal ownership space.
CustosVeritas treats identity as something you carry, not something a platform keeps. Services receive context-specific, provable statements, not full profiles.
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- OwnershipWhere identity lives
- TruthWhat is valid
- PresentationHow it feels
- ToolingHow it is edited
Mission
Digital identity is effectively platform-bound. CustosVeritas sketches a protocol mindset that restores agency by design.
Problem
Users are guests in other people's systems. This creates lock-in, opaque permission sprawl, and a power asymmetry around profiles and relationship graphs.
Core claim
Identity should be a personal ownership space. Services receive only what a context requires as provable statements, not raw data dumps.
Principles of restraint
Architecture of limitation, not persuasion.
Minimal disclosure
Default is a true/false statement like "over 18" or "authorized," not a full profile.
Revocation over permanence
Statements can expire or be revoked; exposure is not assumed to be permanent.
Replaceable tools
Clients and editors are interchangeable. The person's order remains their own.
Architecture at a glance
A layered model: crypto core as TCP/IP, roles and statements as HTML, order and visual description as CSS, clients as browsers.
Explicit non-goals
- No central identity provider or mandatory official app.
- No platform accounts as the root of identity.
- No social profiling, ranking, or engagement loops.
- No hidden telemetry by default.
Showcase: MatchVote
MatchVote is referenced as a showcase application, not the product itself. Details are shared on request.
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