AIISP-1

AIISP — Artificial Intelligence Inference Standards Protocol

A minimal, transport-agnostic, opt-in HTTP standard for declaring and settling the energy, environmental, and human-attribution components of a single Large Language Model inference request.

Published in the spirit of the early IETF RFCs that defined TCP, IP, HTTP, and TLS — small, composable, opt-in, and owned by no single party.

Quick links

• Read the spec → spec/aiisp-1.md
• Read it rendered → https://97115104.github.io/aiisp-spec/
• Read the companion paper → https://humandatacollective.org (commentable)
• Discuss v0.1 → issue #1
• Propose a change → open a PR or file an amendment

Repository layout

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├── spec/                    # Normative specification documents
│   ├── README.md
│   └── aiisp-1.md           # AIISP-1 — the inference transparency layer
├── paper/                   # Companion paper (motivation, not normative)
│   ├── human-data-collective.tex   # LaTeX source (canonical)
│   ├── human-data-collective.md    # Markdown mirror
│   ├── human-data-collective.pdf   # Typeset edition
│   ├── human-data-collective.bib   # Bibliography
│   └── generate-latex.sh           # pdflatex × 3 build script
├── docs/                    # GitHub Pages site (index + spec renderer)
├── .github/                 # Issue templates, PR template, Pages workflow
├── CONTRIBUTING.md          # How to file an issue or open a PR
├── GOVERNANCE.md            # How decisions about the standard are made
├── CHANGELOG.md             # Revision history
├── CITATION.cff             # Machine-readable citation metadata
├── CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md       # Contributor Covenant v2.1
├── SECURITY.md              # Private security disclosure
├── LICENSE                  # CC BY 4.0 — applies to spec & paper text
└── LICENSE-CODE             # MIT — applies to scripts & reference code

Status

This is a Draft (v0.1, April 2026) circulated for public comment. It is not, at the date of writing, a ratified standard of any standards-development organization. The author intends to submit this document to the IETF ART area, the Decentralized Identity Foundation, and the W3C AI Provenance community group, in that order.

The protocol family is called AIISP. This specification is AIISP-1, The Artificial Intelligence Inference Standards Protocol. Future specifications will be AIISP-2 (Attribution), AIISP-3 (Governance), and so on, following the IETF RFC numbering convention.

How to contribute

The repository hosts two things you can contribute to: the spec in spec/aiisp-1.md and the companion paper in paper/. Both follow the same PR-and-issue workflow against different files.

You want to…	Use this
Comment generally on AIISP-1 v0.1	Reply on issue #1
File a specific objection on a section	Comment template
Propose a new feature, header, or behaviour	Amendment template
Report a typo or broken citation	Errata template
Propose textual changes	Open a Pull Request
Comment on a specific paper passage	Select text at https://humandatacollective.org
Disclose a security issue privately	See SECURITY.md

Full guidelines are in CONTRIBUTING.md. Decision process and versioning are in GOVERNANCE.md.

Building the paper locally

cd paper && ./generate-latex.sh

Requires TeX Live or MacTeX (brew install --cask mactex-no-gui on macOS). See paper/README.md for the full editorial workflow.

License

• Specification text in spec/ and paper text in paper/ are licensed Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International so any party may implement, mirror, translate, or fork without permission.
• Scripts and any reference implementation code are licensed under the MIT License.

Citing this document

@misc{aiisp1_2026,
  author       = {Harshberger, Austin},
  title        = {AIISP-1: The Artificial Intelligence Inference Standards Protocol},
  year         = {2026},
  month        = apr,
  version      = {Draft v0.1},
  howpublished = {Open standard, GitHub repository},
  url          = {https://github.com/97115104/aiisp-spec},
  note         = {Public review thread: \url{https://github.com/97115104/aiisp-spec/issues/1}}
}

Plain prose:

Harshberger, A. (2026). AIISP-1: The Artificial Intelligence Inference Standards Protocol (Draft v0.1). https://github.com/97115104/aiisp-spec

Code of Conduct

This project follows the Contributor Covenant v2.1. By participating you agree to abide by its terms.

Contact

Editor: Austin Harshberger · x@97115104.com

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