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Working Group self-declarations.

The Working Group publishes its own Consensus Profile and self-declared factual claims as a transparency artefact and a working example of the protocols it specifies.

If the Veritas Protocol is to be taken seriously, the Working Group should be willing to publish under the same protocols it asks others to publish under. This page hosts both:

working-group-cpml.json

The Working Group's own Consensus Profile Markup Language file. Declares which validators and consensus domains the Working Group trusts for which topics, with weights, conflict rules, and stated values.

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factcheck.json

The Working Group's self-declared factual claims, in RFC-FACTCHECK-v0.2 format. Ten claims about the protocol's status, the critical review, the revenue projections, the architecture, the editorial commitments, the Working Group's values, and the project's legal status. Each claim has a self-declared verdict; third-party validators are explicitly invited to attest.

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The five values the Working Group commits to

The CPML embeds these as weighting and topic-override decisions. They are stated in plain English here so a reader can audit whether the JSON's weights match the prose's intent.

Stated values

Science is the highest-weight evidential standard for empirical questions. We trust mainstream scientific institutions on questions within their methodological remit.
Technical optimism is moderate. We believe technology meaningfully improves human welfare on average, but we do not pretend that every technological development is good.
Crypto acceptance is moderate and discriminating. We reject the speculation, hype-cycle, and extractive practices that dominate the consumer-crypto industry. We accept and use the engineering primitives where they earn their keep — signed transparency logs, content addressing, federated identity, threshold signatures.
Multiculturalism is positive. Cultural diversity is a source of evolutionary and civic resilience; pluralism in epistemic frames is a feature, not a problem.
Human life and dignity are foundational. We anchor in the post-WWII Universal Declaration of Human Rights tradition and treat any consensus frame that denies the equal moral worth of persons as inadmissible at the foundation level.

These values are operationalised in the CPML's domains, topics, and validators.trust fields. For the discriminating-crypto-acceptance, see the topics["technology:cryptocurrency"] override. For the human-rights anchor, see the topics["human-rights:fundamental"] override.

What this is not

Not a binding rule on the protocol. Other CPMLs with materially different values are equally legitimate users of the protocol. The Working Group's CPML expresses its own editorial composition; it does not gatekeep what others can do.
Not a finalised specification. The CPML format is at v0.1 with informal Path C operational semantics (RFC-CPML § 9). v0.3 of the working paper commits to selecting Path A (Value-based Argumentation Framework) or Path B (probabilistic-logic) before v1.0.
Not signed yet. Both files are unsigned drafts. Cryptographic signing requires the Working Group's DID document to be published, which is a Phase I deliverable.
Not validated by third parties. The factcheck.json's claims are self-declared. We invite third-party validators to attest — submissions can be sent through the contact form and we will list cross-attestations as they arrive.

Discovery

This page declares its self-claims via the standard discovery tag:

<link rel="factcheck" href="./factcheck.json" type="application/json">

A v0.2-conformant reader (browser extension, AI agent, search-engine crawler) will discover the file and surface the verifications.

Veritas Protocol Self-Declarations · v0.2 · April 2026 · Working Group
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