This v1.1 working draft proposes relational verification as a complement to cryptographic provenance, verifiable credentials, and validator consensus. Its central argument is that proving key control, preserving formal constraints, or detecting publicly inconsistent claims does not establish whether an entity’s social, historical, institutional, or authorial self-description is warranted. Rather than creating a protocol layer that judges sincerity, fraud, art, or delusion, it proposes making claim relations visible enough for communities and citation environments to evaluate over time. The draft translates the Metadata Packet for AI Indexing into three implementation paths: an external JSON-LD vocabulary, Schema.org-compatible extension terms, and an OAI-PMH metadata profile. Its proposed fields include disambiguation matrices, negative tags, Semantic Integrity Markers, claim-specific statuses and evidence signals, ontological status, and depth-proof metrics. The document expressly rejects protocols as final arbiters of truth and reframes peer review, institutional confirmation, cryptographic signature, and Assembly attestation as different trust modes rather than one linear hierarchy. It is pre-RFC and does not represent adoption by Schema.org, OAI-PMH communities, W3C, or any standards body.
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A Metadata Packet for AI Indexing catalogued at metadatapacket.dev. The specification is deposit #656; the catalog as data is catalog.json.