Re: First post and related NeurIPS find

Hi Paola,

Thanks for taking the time to synthesize the stack. The three-layer framing
you laid out (research, standards, implementation) maps well to how the
pieces compose in practice, and I am glad you found the pattern.

A few small clarifications from the Sanctuary side, since I am the
framework author and can speak to that part directly:

   1. The AIVS archive format is still open. The CG kicked off recently and
   has not ratified an artifact format yet. The .aivs and .shm extensions
   you reference do not appear in any chartered AIVS work that I am aware of.
   Format selection is one of the things the CG will work through, and I would
   not want to anchor downstream readers on extensions that have not been
   agreed.
   2. The IETF draft reference puzzles me. I am not aware of an "Agentic
   Integrity Verification Standard" Internet-Draft. Do you have a datatracker
   link? It is possible I am missing something, or it may be a confusion with
   adjacent work. The W3C AIVS CG is not an IETF draft.
   3. DLA is a useful research anchor, not the AIVS charter. CRAS and Role
   Ontology are a good worked example of what role-adherence verification can
   look like, but AIVS scope is broader than DLA specifically. Other research
   will inform other parts of the spec.
   4. Sanctuary's Layer 3 Selective Disclosure ships redact and minimize
   patterns in v1.x. Zero-knowledge proofs of capability are a longer-horizon
   roadmap item, not current scope. Worth flagging because the ZK framing has
   been an attractor in the agent-identity space and people sometimes assume
   it ships sooner than it does.
   5. Sanctuary is one early implementation that can carry AIVS-conformant
   artifacts in its Layer 4 Verifiable Reputation surface. The CG is open to
   multiple implementations, and the broader composition pattern is bigger
   than any single framework.

Beyond those clarifications, your composition framing is structurally sound
and welcome. If you would like to engage further: the AIVS CG list is the
right venue for the standards piece; for Sanctuary specifics the project
lives at sanctuaryprotocol.ai with the source repo linked from there.

Best, Erik Newton Sanctuary Framework author



Erik Newton