What this mark means

WISP CERTIFIED is not a badge of affiliation and not a paid logo. When the mark appears on an identity implementation, it certifies that the implementation was tested against the WISP Standard and conformed — under the Foundation’s evidence discipline, on sealed test cells, with results that any third party can re-execute. The mark is displayed by the implementations of others; the Foundation certifies, and is barred by its own program charter from certifying itself or its affiliates.

What certification tests

The certified characteristics come from the WISP Standard’s fourteen requirements and the WISP Specification’s conformance profile. In summary, a conforming implementation:

• 1treats identity as continuously measured state rather than a stored credential — scored for coherence, trust, and drift against the subject’s own history;
• 2produces the canonical encoding — fixed formats that independent implementations parse identically;
• 3meets the determinism profile — identical inputs produce bit-identical results, replayable on independent hardware;
• 4passes the conformance vectors — pre-registered inputs with sealed expected outputs;
• 5keeps the audit discipline — decisions recorded in tamper-evident, chained records.

The architecture these properties come from is the subject of granted U.S. Patent 12,688,267 B1 — the certified characteristics rest on claims that crossed substantive examination, and the standard exists so that independent implementations of those properties can prove conformance.

How an implementation earns it

The implementer states in advance exactly what will be demonstrated; the scenario and pass criteria seal before anything runs; evidence is captured under content-addressed manifests; the verdict is reached under the program charter’s governance — with failures published at the same prominence as passes; and authorization to display the mark issues against the sealed record — per the Foundation’s licensing terms — and the record travels with the mark. A certified implementation that later fails a re-run of its own sealed cells loses the mark by the same mechanism that granted it.

The program documents

The WISP Standard (fourteen requirements, tiered by evidence) and the WISP Specification (canonical encoding, conformance vectors, determinism profile, test catalogue) are published as working drafts open for public review, following the template of the Foundation’s AGI CERTIFIED™ program. Comment before ratification is invited; the program opens to certification at ratification, per the charter. Display and usage of the mark are governed by the mark usage rules.