Attestation Standing Reference.
iqa is a URI scheme for citing the attestation standing of a subject — reported by one of three named organs (forge · tss · gateway) — without carrying the underlying proof. The scheme is submitted to IANA (Provisional, pending).
Citable standing
The address says where to ask; the state says what is currently true. Reading the syntax establishes nothing about any subject — standing is established only by the seal and by the answering organ.
One click — nothing installed, no administrator rights, removable later in the browser's protocol-handler settings.
The address is iqa://<subject>.<organ>.<root>/<action>. Reaching it from a web page adds the browser's own reserved prefix, which is the same address, not a second protocol — same authority, same path, same derived ROUTE_SHARD. The form without that prefix reaches the same place through a one-time operating-system registration instead.
Coverage: the identical handler shape (see rttp.com) was measured on Windows Chrome.
The resolver page needs no registration at all.
RFC-009 Performance Gates
The Speed of Trust
Core Mechanism
Certification
Authority is audited via the LogicFidelity128 manifold—aligned to 16 bytes for instantaneous register shunting.
// LogicFidelity128 (v1.3.0) #[repr(C, align(16))] pub struct LogicFidelity128 { pub node_aid: AID, // Identity DNA pub current_fidelity_f64: f64, // 1.0 = nominal fidelity pub audit_id_128: u128, // Unique Forensic Shard pub temporal_drift_ns: u128, // Deviation from 12ns pub audit_latency_ns: u128, // Measured Authority Reflex pub audited_at_ns_128: u128, // 12ns Jitter-locked Timestamp }
A 256-bit Vibrating Cryptographic Shard forged by HMAC-SHA256, anchored to the node's AID DNA and its Territorial Soil (IP / DNS / Hardware IDs).
// Shard Anatomy: 256-bit Dual Suture (RFC-009-A) Shard A 0-127 // first half of the 256-bit seal Shard B 128-255 // second half — both halves are required
Drift analysis against the recorded baseline. Deviation above the configured threshold demotes the node to ghost standing.
Verification results are reported to the diagnostic layer (RFC-014). No performance figure is published here without its measurement conditions.
⚠️ Seal requirement
Seal Verification Tax
Any attempt to execute logic or participate in Hive resonance without a verified Radiant Seal will trigger a mandatory 10ms Performance Penalty per heartbeat.
Operations that require a verified standing are not available to unverified nodes.
A fragmented registry is treated as a quarantine case by the RPKI (RFC-003) layer.
Implementation Standard
TemporalSupervisor Trait
TSS is the Continuous Baptism protocol: it audits the node's execution pulse for bit-drift at 12ns precision, ensuring a node never drifts after receiving its seal.
pub trait TemporalSupervisor { /// Audits the node's execution pulse for bit-drift. /// Returns LogicFidelity128 shard. fn audit_logic_fidelity_12ns(&self, pulse_ptr: *const u128) -> LogicFidelity128 { let drift = self.measure_jitter_ns(); let entropy = self.calculate_entropy_floor(); if drift > 12 || entropy > 0.001 { self.trigger_authority_shunt(); // Shunt to the 10ms floor } LogicFidelity128::new(drift, entropy) } }