Open, implementation-neutral standards for human-rooted identity, accountable technology, and sovereign participation.
TitleChain Foundation stewards public specifications and review processes that help people retain authority over their identities, credentials, data, and delegated digital actions.
Our public standards program is ICSN — Internet Cooperative for Sovereign Networks. The work is developed through open RFCs, documented governance, public review, and implementation evidence.
- Explore ICSN Standards — specifications, schemas, RFCs, governance, and conformance work.
- Review open issues — choose a concrete task or suggest an improvement.
- Join Discussions — ask questions and participate in public review.
- Read the contribution guide — understand the RFC and contribution workflow.
- Review current priorities — see where help is most useful.
- Human-rooted identity and proof of life, presence, intent, and authority.
- Accountable, limited, and revocable delegation to software and AI agents.
- Portable credentials, data provenance, recovery, and the right to exit.
- Security, privacy, conformance criteria, schemas, and reference implementations.
- Interoperability across organizations, communities, institutions, and jurisdictions.
All work in this organization should be treated according to its stated maturity and license. Publication does not by itself make a proposal a stable Foundation standard.
TitleChain Foundation governs the public standards process. M5 and other implementers may test or deploy the standards, but no implementation, vendor, contributor, or sponsor controls the standards solely through funding or adoption.
Private operational systems, personal records, credentials, and production secrets do not belong in these public repositories.
Sponsorship helps fund public specifications, security review, conformance materials, reference implementations, release work, and the infrastructure that keeps this program accessible.
Sponsorship does not purchase governance authority, conformance status, preferential technical decisions, or access to private participant data.
Higher-level organizational partnerships are available through a conversation so scope, recognition, independence, and public impact reporting can be agreed responsibly. Connect with the Foundation.
Participation is governed by our Code of Conduct, Governance policy, and Security policy.
We welcome developers, reviewers, security researchers, documentation contributors, implementers, and public-interest institutions.