---
id: "toip-keri-repo-2021"
type: "repository"
type_label: "Repositories"
title: "trustoverip/keri (archived): the 2021 KERI specification repository"
maintainer: "Trust over IP"
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: "retired"
status_meaning: "the maintainer says it is no longer maintained, or it redirects elsewhere"
access: "public"
access_meaning: "anyone with the link"
topics:
  - "specifications"
  - "history"
roles:
  - "developer"
  - "security-architect"
  - "standards-policy"
  - "researcher"
source_url: "https://github.com/trustoverip/keri"
source_license: "Apache-2.0"
source_license_note: "the repository's license on GitHub (read 2026-11-03)"
found_on: "kerisse"
kerisse_credit: true
abstract_license: "CC BY 4.0"
abstract_license_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
abstract_attribution: "KSKB, the KERISuite Knowledge Base (https://kskb.dev/)"
last_checked: "2026-11-02"
kskb_url: "https://kskb.dev/cards/toip-keri-repo-2021/"
kskb_app_url: "https://kskb.dev/#item/toip-keri-repo-2021"
kskb_record_url: "https://kskb.dev/data/kskb/resources/toip-keri-repo-2021"
kskb_markdown_url: "https://kskb.dev/export/cards/toip-keri-repo-2021.md"
---

# trustoverip/keri (archived): the 2021 KERI specification repository

An archived Trust over IP repository described as the KERI specification, created in June 2021; its files are the build scaffolding for a documentation site and an archived requirements page. Kept for the history of where the specification has lived.

Labels: reading level Normative; evidence normative (a specification or a requirement in one).
Source: https://github.com/trustoverip/keri (license Apache-2.0).
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.