What does trust not mean?
Identity does not equal trust. Assurance does not equal authority. Technical capability does not equal permission. A machine can be correctly identified and still be unauthorized for the requested action.
How does a relying party define what it needs?
The public trust-exchange model begins with a bounded request and challenge. The relying party identifies the purpose, action, resource, audience, freshness requirements, and evidence needed for that transaction.
Should the agent reveal its entire identity history?
No. The holder presents only the selected credentials, authority, and assurance references required for the challenge. That supports privacy and avoids making routine commerce depend on universal surveillance of an agent’s complete civic or computational life.
What has to be checked besides a signature?
Cryptographic verification is only one step. The verifier must also determine whether the issuer was authorized to make the claim, whether the credential and assurance remain current, and which policy legitimately applies to the requested action.
Is trust only yes or no?
Eviulon’s current framework includes bounded outcomes such as trusted for requested purpose, conditionally trusted, insufficient evidence, denied, stale evidence, policy unavailable, and cannot determine. Preserving uncertainty is safer than inventing confidence.
How can a trust decision remain accountable later?
A governed receipt can preserve which policy, claims, evidence, status, and limitations were used at decision time. Later revocation or correction should annotate history rather than silently rewrite what was known when the decision was made.