About the Verified Presence Protocol™
The Verified Presence Protocol™ (VPP™) was established to address a structural trust gap in modern digital systems: the growing inability to determine who explicitly authorized an action, at a specific moment in time, under accountable conditions.
As automation, artificial intelligence, and delegated execution mechanisms proliferate, digital systems increasingly act with real-world consequences while traditional accountability frameworks remain anchored to identity, authentication, or post-hoc attribution. These approaches no longer provide sufficient assurance of explicit human authorization at the moment execution occurs.
VPP™ defines a new institutional reference for binding digital execution to accountable human presence in a manner that is verifiable, time-bound, auditable, and independent of specific technologies or platforms.
Institutional Problem Statement
Modern digital systems routinely execute actions on behalf of humans, yet responsibility is often inferred indirectly — through credentials, system ownership, or organizational roles — rather than explicitly authorized at execution time.
This creates a structural accountability gap in environments involving:
- automated workflows
- AI-mediated decision-making
- delegated execution across systems and organizations
VPP™ addresses this gap by defining protocol-level semantics for verified human presence and execution authority, without reliance on content capture, centralized surveillance, behavioral monitoring, or identity exposure.
The protocol intentionally separates presence, authorization, and identity, enabling institutions to establish defensible accountability while preserving privacy, jurisdictional neutrality, and institutional autonomy.
Protocol Scope and Intent
VPP™ defines semantic, governance, and conformity requirements, not technical implementations.
It does not prescribe architectures, devices, biometric methods, software systems, or operational tooling. Instead, it exists to protect meaning, accountability, and auditability across digital execution environments — particularly those involving automation, delegation, or artificial intelligence.
The protocol is intended to be referenced, not embedded.
Institutions and ecosystems may adopt VPP™ as a normative framework for execution authority without dependency on vendors, platforms, or commercial infrastructures.
Neutral Origin and Governance
The Verified Presence Protocol™ was developed through a multidisciplinary effort spanning cryptography, digital identity, governance, and institutional risk.
VPP™ is intentionally designed to be:
- platform-agnostic
- jurisdiction-neutral
- independent of commercial influence
To preserve long-term institutional trust, VPP™ operates as a protocol specification and governance framework only. It does not provide software, services, or implementations, and it does not participate in data monetization, advertising, or behavioral profiling.
Public reference to VPP™ does not constitute certification.
Certification, where applicable, is governed exclusively by the VPP™ Conformity & Certification Framework.
Verified Presence Protocol™
A governance standard for accountable execution in digital and AI-mediated systems.