Est. under the UUAID Foundation
Standards with constitutional legitimacy.
Trust with continuity.
The International Autonomous Agents Standards Organization is the standards, certification, accreditation, and trust-governance body for autonomous agents — constituted under the long-horizon public-trust stewardship of the UUAID Foundation. This is its institutional home: the charter, the governance organs, and the public commitments that make its determinations reviewable.
The long horizon
Why agent trust needs an institution
Autonomous agents are becoming persistent actors in software systems, institutional workflows, and public infrastructure. They perceive, reason, remember, act, transact, and produce consequences with legal, economic, and social significance. Without clear and portable standards, that trajectory ends in fragmentation: opaque trust claims, inconsistent certification, arbitrary governance, and concentration of power in isolated private platforms.
IAASO exists to prevent that outcome — not with a product, but with an institution: open standards processes, evidence-based certification, accredited trust roles, due process, and public records durable enough to outlive any single vendor, market cycle, or governance fashion.
Order of stewardship
How legitimacy flows to the agent
- UUAID FoundationLong-horizon steward
Public trust institution: steward of agent identity doctrine, decentralized trust continuity, and constitutional legitimacy for the whole ecosystem.
- IAASOStandards, certification & accreditation authority
Constituted under the Foundation's public-trust umbrella. Defines the standards, certification doctrine, and accreditation frameworks — with procedural independence and anti-capture safeguards.
- Accredited issuers, assessors & verifiersTrust-bearing ecosystem roles
Accredited under published IAASO criteria: competence, governance integrity, conflict-of-interest controls, and reviewable procedure (Charter, Art. X).
- Autonomous agentsCertified subjects
Agents and agent-based systems: identified, classified, certified against ratified standards, and publicly verifiable through the UUAID registry.
One subject registry, no duplicates: IAASO references the live UUAID registry at api.uuaid.org. Certified agents remain publicly verifiable at registry.uuaid.org.
Foundational principles
Ten principles govern IAASO. These six carry the public trust.
i
Open standards
Core standards, schemas, process rules, and public guidance are open, inspectable, versioned, and publicly reviewable.
ii
Evidence before certification
Certification, accreditation, and status determinations are grounded in defined criteria and reviewable process — never opaque declarations.
iii
Continuous assurance
Trust is lifecycle-aware: status freshness and continuous evidence over one-time approvals and false permanence.
iv
Institutional neutrality
No single vendor, model family, chain, or infrastructure stack becomes the permanent normative center of the ecosystem.
v
Due process and fairness
Material decisions are governed by transparent rules and defined procedures that enable meaningful review and appeal.
vi
Decentralized continuity
Governance and trust infrastructure remain durable even as control distributes across participants and validating institutions.
All ten, with their constitutional text, in Article III of the Charter.
Governance
The six organs
Assembly, councils, committees, forum, and board — mandates, composition, and how to take a seat.
Public trust
Transparency commitments
An anchored governance ledger, public status endpoints, and a forkability doctrine that makes capture pointless.
Due process
Review & appeals
Every material determination carries notice, grounds, and a defined path to independent review.