The IoV 0.5.0
Adds registered expressions, the Cortisol Checker fixture, custodial did:iov identities, full Wellbeing Identity workshop completion, and creator eligibility.
What This Specification Is
The Internet of Value spec defines a protocol stack for representing valuable human activity as machine-readable, auditable state. It starts with time, activity, proof, attribution, and integrity; interprets that activity through Wellbecoming context; routes public performance outputs into SAOcommons validation; and updates Wellbeing Identity as a living state.
The protocol stack is designed for builders who need stable primitives, versioned registries, validation rules, API contracts, and a public history of how the system evolved. This Datatracker-style surface makes that evolution visible instead of hiding it in commits or old planning notes.
Canonical Protocol Stack
These are the canonical Level 1 protocol roots. The display names are human-readable; the tilde paths are the stable names that builders should use in registries, API payloads, tests, and conformance tooling.
~~TimeSlice Time Slice~~Activity Activity~~Proof Proof~~Attribution Attribution~~Integrity Integrity
~WellbecomingProtocol
Wellbecoming Protocol
Measures private and performance context that updates Wellbeing Identity.
~~Physiology Physiology~~Emotion Emotion~~Feeling Feeling~~Thought Thought~~Habit Habit~~Performance Performance
~SAOcommons
SAOcommons
Community micro-economy interface with three primary lanes: learning, earning, and organization-building.
~~Learning Learning~~Earning Earning~~OrgBuilding Org Building
~WellbeingIdentity
Wellbeing Identity
Living identity state updated by Value Capture, Wellbecoming, and SAOcommons.
~~GivenIdentity Given Identity~~EarnedIdentity Earned Identity~~RentedIdentity Rented Identity~~Skills Skills~~MoralCompass Moral Compass~~Story Story
Tilde Layering
The tilde prefix is part of the protocol naming system. It communicates depth without inventing a separate namespace grammar.
| Level | Marker | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| L1 | ~ | Protocol root |
| L2 | ~~ | Major node or domain |
| L3 | ~~~ | Facet / field / measurable primitive |
| L4 | ~~~~ | Method, evidence, signal, or implementation-specific detail |
Version Lineage
The version history records more than release numbers. It captures naming decisions, migrations, production-readiness passes, accepted RFC-style records, and generated artifacts.
Adds registered expressions, the Cortisol Checker fixture, custodial did:iov identities, full Wellbeing Identity workshop completion, and creator eligibility.
Adds a public version-history layer, RFC-style spec index, machine-readable history artifacts, expanded Spec API history endpoints, and The IoV semantics specification.
Adds deliverable refs, beneficiary refs, route allocation, SAO lane context normalization, and facet-level consent controls.
Makes actor identity, Wellbecoming routing, validation community context, and Caste as a consent-controlled Given Identity facet explicit.
Establishes the canonical registry, generated artifacts, read-only Spec API, OpenAPI output, SDK starter, CI, namespace checks, VHTTP sample validation, and compatibility baseline.
Records the migration from generic Identity naming to WellbeingIdentity and normalizes identity, value-capture, and score paths before the production registry foundation.
Commits to Wellbeing Identity as the canonical identity framing and compares external identity platforms against The IoV's living-state identity model.
Formalizes the Human Node as Wellbeing plus Identity, including six Wellbeing nodes and a persistent actor identity model.
Initializes registry structure, namespace linting, naming rules, and changelog.
Establishes the initial The Internet of Value spec repository.