(registered 2026-10-13, last updated 2026-10-13)

URI scheme name:
iqa

Status:
Provisional

Applications/protocols that use this scheme name:
The IQA (Identity Quality Assurance) certification layer of the Aicent
Stack - a subject-attestation scheme in which a sovereign identity is
audited and issued a 256-bit Radiant Seal by a certification authority.

An iqa URI references the attestation standing of a subject as reported
by one of the three certification organs. Used by the IQA reference
implementation and by tooling that cites attestations in documents and
configuration.

Scheme syntax:
iqa://<subject>.<organ>.<root>/<action>

subject = 8 lowercase hex digits (AID routing hash), or
32/64 lowercase hex digits (128-/256-bit AID), or
a human-readable token [a-z0-9-]+
organ = "forge" / "tss" / "gateway" (RFC-009-A / -B / -C)
root = sovereign root label e.g. iqa
action = "verify" / "audit" / "attest" / "revoke" (optional)

Lowercase US-ASCII only. The scheme defines no userinfo, port, query
or fragment.

Dereferencing a URI without an "action" performs a read-only standing
lookup and is a safe operation (RFC 7595, Section 3.4). Of the defined
actions, "verify" is likewise read-only, while "audit", "attest" and
"revoke" are state-transitioning and are explicitly not reachable by
dereferencing a URI.

On naming (RFC 7595, Section 3.8): the acronym is not the
computer-vision field of Image Quality Assessment, and it is not
affiliated with the historical UK Institute of Quality Assurance. A
naming note to that effect appears in the specification, References [1].

Contact:
Registering party: ShaoBao Li <lee&iqa.org>
Scheme creator: IQA.ORG Organization

Author/Change controller:
IQA.ORG Organization
Contact: lee&iqa.org

References:
draft-li-rttp-iqa-addressing-00
IQA: Identity Quality Assurance - scheme specification
https://iqa.org/AICENT-009