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id: "acdc-spec"
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type_label: "Specifications and glossaries"
title: "ACDC specification v1.0"
maintainer: "ToIP KERI Suite Working Group"
authors: []
date: null
year: null
reading_level: "normative"
reading_level_label: "Normative"
reading_level_meaning: "the specifications and the documents they defer to"
evidence: "normative"
evidence_meaning: "a specification or a requirement in one"
status: "active"
status_meaning: "changed within the last six months, or a live service"
access: "public"
access_meaning: "anyone with the link"
topics:
  - "specifications"
roles:
  - "developer"
  - "security-architect"
  - "standards-policy"
source_url: "https://trustoverip.github.io/kswg-acdc-specification/"
source_license: "OWFa-1.0"
source_license_note: "LICENSE.md in the repository: OWFa 1.0, copyright the specification's contributors (read 2026-11-03)"
found_on: "keri-one-resources"
kerisse_credit: true
abstract_license: "CC BY 4.0"
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# ACDC specification v1.0

The GitHub repository holding the Trust Over IP specification of Authentic Chained Data Containers (ACDC), rendered at trustoverip.github.io/kswg-acdc-specification. For implementers who need the normative ACDC text and its issue history.

Labels: reading level Normative; evidence normative (a specification or a requirement in one).
Source: https://trustoverip.github.io/kswg-acdc-specification/ (license OWFa-1.0).
The abstract is KSKB's own text under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; credit KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/).
Found through KERISSE, the KERI Suite Search Engine (Kor Dwarshuis and Henk van Cann), whose dataset is the source of the documents the base indexes.