State of the standard

Where the VAID standard is, right now.

A standard that wants to become infrastructure has to show it's moving. This page is the living record – what's frozen, what's shipped, what's next – kept current on a schedule rather than left to age.

Last updated 2026-07-03 Maintained by Solara Associates Review cadence Quarterly
01Current spec

Proof-of-possession, v1 – frozen

The canonical signing path is pinned by a frozen conformance vector. A change to canonicalization is a major version bump by definition, so v1 is a stable target to build against.

the frozen path
payload (7 fields) → RFC 8785 JCSSHA-256Ed25519(digest)
conformance: byte-for-byte, Rust ≡ Python
02Shipped
✓ SHIPPED

The canonicalization spec

One canonical signing path, written as code – the byte-level interoperability contract.

✓ SHIPPED

Two reference SDKs

Rust and Python reference signers, each locked to the same frozen vector.

✓ SHIPPED

Cross-language conformance

A frozen vector both SDKs reproduce byte-for-byte – the guarantee, proven.

03Next
ON THE ROADMAP

A reference mint

Issuance, delegation, and attenuation of a VAID into a narrower child VAID – the parts deliberately absent from the signing contract today.

ON THE ROADMAP

The policy language

A way to express what a VAID is permitted to do, so authority is declared, not just carried.

ON THE ROADMAP

More libraries + conformance tooling

Additional client libraries and public conformance tooling, so any implementation can prove itself against the vector.

ON THE ROADMAP

Neutral governance

A path to neutral stewardship of the standard itself – the Docker → Kubernetes → CNCF pattern. Direction, not a dated commitment.

On dates This page tracks status, not a release calendar. We don't publish a public date for open release until it's real – so you'll see items move from "next" to "shipped" here, rather than a countdown that slips.

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