AIVS Community Group: first-meeting call (proposed window May 22 to June 12)

Hi all,

Welcome to the Agentic Integrity Verification Specification (AIVS)
Community Group. Ben Stone and I are the designated co-chairs, and this is
our official kickoff note. The CG was chartered on April 5 with 8
participants (we're up to 10 now) — thank you to the founding proposers
(Ben Stone, Ruoxi Ran, Robert Douglas Muncaster, Khushboo Parmar, and Erik
Delgado) for getting us here.


It's been about a month since we launched, and Ben and I want to schedule
our first working meeting before momentum slips.

The charter we drafted in March points at a real and increasingly important
problem space: portable, self-verifiable cryptographic proof of agent
sessions, with EU AI Act Article 19, ISO/IEC 42001, and NIST AI RMF as the
regulatory tailwinds. The agent stack is wiring itself together fast around
us, and the verification layer is one of the seams where standards work
matters most. We should not let it slip while everyone else moves.

I'd like to propose a first meeting in the window of *May 22** through **June
12, 2026*. Sixty minutes, via video. The agenda would be deliberately open
and collaborative:

   1.

   Confirm scope. Are we still aligned on what AIVS v1.0 should look like,
   or has our shared understanding shifted since March? If it has, that is
   healthy, and we should re-anchor.
   2.

   Surface existing aligned work in the problem space. The AIVS v1.0
   starting-point spec is one anchor. Members are likely tracking or
   contributing to other open-source efforts in the same neighborhood; a brief
   tour from anyone who wants to share is welcome.
   3.

   Identify our first work item or items together. Member-driven. The
   chairs facilitate; members drive.
   4.

   Establish a regular meeting cadence. Monthly is the typical CG default;
   we can adjust.

Two asks before the first meeting:

   1. Introduce yourself on this thread — name, organization, and what
   aspects of verifiable signals for AI agents interest you most.
   2. Please reply with your availability in May 22 through June 12, 2026
   window. I will consolidate responses and send a final time once we have
   quorum.

If anyone has work-item suggestions they would like circulated before the
meeting so members can review in advance, send them to the public list and
I will batch them into a pre-meeting digest.

Looking forward to getting started.

Best,
Erik Newton
Co-chair, AIVS Community Group




Erik Newton