Ayra Community,
TL;DR:
- TRQP v2.0 reaches formal standard with publishing at Trust Over IP, under the Joint Development Foundation SDO rules.
- Trusted.Associates Yoti and FaceTec have begun planning out the high-assurance PoC that kicked off mid-April.
Ayra Community,
April has been a month of milestones. The Trust Registry Query Protocol, years in the making, is now officially released. The first Ayra Card PoC is underway with Yoti and Trusted.Associates beginning things – other members are welcome. The Ayra Protocol Working Group has launched. And the broader ecosystem is accelerating in ways that validate everything this community has been building toward, particularly how digital trust applies to Agentic AI.
Keep being awesome!
Darrell O’Donnell
Executive Director
darrell.odonnell@ayra.forum
Workstream Updates
📇 Business Workstream
🏅TRQP v2.0 Is Now a Formal Standard
The Trust Registry Query Protocol (TRQP) v2.0 was approved on April 15 as a ToIP Approved Deliverable — the first formal standard for querying trust registries. Think of it as DNS for trust: a lightweight, read-only HTTPS query that answers “Is this entity authorized to do this thing?”
The digital trust stack has been built in pieces — W3C gave us verifiable credentials, DIF gave us an interoperable presentation. What was missing was a standard way to check the governance layer behind a credential. Without that, a perfectly signed credential from an unauthorized issuer passes every technical test. TRQP closes that gap.
Why this matters for members: TRQP is the query layer trust registries expose. The registries themselves are becoming commodity infrastructure — the real question is who owns the intelligence layer that sits on top. That coordination is exactly what the Ayra Trust Network is built to provide.
🚀 First Ayra Card PoC — Kicked Off
The first Ayra Card Proof of Concept officially kicked off with Trusted Associates, Yoti, and FaceTec. This is a significant moment, moving from protocol to proof, with real organizations running real implementations. This POC is focusing on high-assurance onboarding with government ID verification and person binding for employee credentials. The POC will demonstrate how Ayra’s conformance test suite facilitates interoperability. We’ll be sharing learnings as the PoC progresses.
🛠 Ayra Protocol Working Group Launched
The Ayra Protocol Working Group held its kick-off on April 14. This group will play a key role in shaping how the Ayra Card Protocol evolves. If you’re interested in contributing, reach out to christine.martin@ayra.forum.
📄 New Member Resource: Trust Registries as Competitive Strategy
Ayra has published a new strategic guide for members: Trust Registries as Competitive Strategy. The trust registries your industry needs don’t exist yet, but the authoritative sources do. This isn’t just a gap. It’s a first-mover opportunity.
The guide covers:
- Two roles to play: catalyst and Intelligence Layer, and which is right for your organization
- Decision frameworks: concrete criteria for when to build a registry vs. proprietary capability
- Implementation roadmap: governance-first sequencing from landscape mapping to intelligence layer build
And more, you can download a copy on the member forum.
Upcoming Business Office Hours:
- Tuesday, May 12 • 6:00 pm PST / 9:00 pm EST / 1:00 am UTC
- Wednesday, May 13 • 8:00 am PST / 11:00 am EST / 3:00 pm UTC
⚖️ Governance Workstream
📋 Board Meeting — April 14
Ayra held its Board Meeting on April 14. Thank you to all members who joined as observers, your engagement and interest in Ayra’s governance is deeply appreciated. The Board’s work continues to strengthen the foundation this community is built on.
📆 Annual General Meeting – Nov 17, 2026 07:00-09:00 PT / 15:00 – 17:00 UTC
Ayra Association will hold its AGM (our primary member assembly) on November 17th. We will be sharing more over the coming month about all the activities and actions that will lead up to that major event.
🛠️ Technical Workstream
🎉 TRQP — Officially Released
The Trust Registry Query Protocol (TRQP) is now officially released, published April 15, 2026 as a formally approved deliverable and globally recognized standard. This has been years of work by this community, and today it belongs to the world. See the note in the Business section (above) for more detail.
Upcoming Technical Office Hours:
- Tuesday, June 16 • 6:00 pm PST / 9:00 pm EST / 1:00 am UTC
- Wednesday, June 17 • 8:00 am PST / 11:00 am EST / 3:00 pm UTC
⏰ Office Hours
We encourage you to participate, bring questions, and share feedback by either filling out this form or requesting access to the agenda items and notes document (link) and adding an entry for the relevant date. You can also reach out to christine.martin@ayra.forum.
These conversations play a key role in shaping alignment across the technical workstream and supporting a collaborative, inclusive engineering culture within Ayra. As always, strengthening member connections is central to our community-building efforts. Standing office hours are available each week, and you can find all upcoming sessions in the Ayra Activity & Events Calendar.
🔗 Worth Reading
🔬DGC Canada — Governance Verification Systems
Canada’s Digital Governance Standards Institute is drafting a standard for deterministic authority boundaries, capsule-based safety, and non-bypassable execution of AI-assisted actions. Existing standards describe governance; this one aims to enforce it. The execution-layer companion to what trust registries do at the authority layer. Read more.
👨🏽🎨 Affinidi — Open by Design
Affinidi joined the Linux Foundation and contributed to OpenVTC, aligned with TRQP v2.0. Their argument: trust infrastructure cannot be proprietary — if one company owns the rails, it’s a product. Another voice arriving at the conclusion we’ve been pressing for years. Read more.
💳 The Intention Layer
Agents don’t have attention to capture; they have mandates to execute. Taylor makes the case that HTTP 402 finally has to get built — Tempo, Stripe, and Visa are shipping the Machine Payments Protocol to do it. Read it with trust registries in mind: a payment only works when the mandate behind it is verifiable. Read more.
👥 Engaging with Ayra
If you have not yet subscribed to the Ayra Activity and Events Calendar, you can do so here. Please note that many activities at this point are Member-only and will require your registration to be approved.
We are reaching out to Members for one-on-one conversations and hope you can take some time to share any feedback and raise any questions. We look forward to engaging in discussions and thank our Members for their commitment to supporting Ayra on its journey. Please feel free to reach out to us directly at any time.
If you’re a Member and haven’t checked out the Member Portal yet, we recommend that you do so. If you haven’t seen your invite, reach out to christine.martin@ayra.forum.
If you are part of an organization that would like to apply for Ayra Membership, we invite you to reach out – on the web, or email us at memberships@ayra.forum.