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# Blake Morrison

Author of 8 papers on identity and 22 IETF Internet-Drafts on delegation and agent authority. Architect of ~Alter.

## About

I'm Blake. I build ~alter, a protocol for human and agentic identity. One ~handle (mine is ~blake) is your login and your address for the whole internet, and your AI can't do anything in your name without your say. The papers and drafts below are the thinking behind it. /about/

## Jus Identitatis: Toward Post-Geographic Sovereignty Through Measured Identity Alignment

/papers/jus-identitatis/

## Identity as Inference: A Predictive Processing Account of Psychometric Measurement and Civic Belonging

/papers/identity-as-inference/

## Identity at Every Scale: Recursive Self-Modelling and the Resolution of the Composition Problem

/papers/identity-at-every-scale/

## Generative Psychometrics: Measurement Theory for Self-Reflective Constructs

/papers/generative-psychometrics/

## Social Free Energy: A Formal Theory of Polity

/papers/social-free-energy/

## The Self-Model Test: A Measurement Protocol for Synthetic Self-Models

/papers/the-self-model-test/

## Empirical Validation of the Identity-as-Inference Framework

/papers/empirical-validation-of-the-identity-as-inference-framework/

## Identity Field Theory: Toward a Physics of Being Known

/papers/identity-field-theory/

## Acts-For

Sign in with one name at any website that publishes one DNS record, or have your AI do it for you. /protocols/acts-for/

## Discovery of Model Context Protocol Servers via DNS TXT Records

An AI finds a company's tools through DNS and can check who runs them. /protocols/mcp-dns-discovery/

## The 'alter' URI Scheme for Dispatchable ~handle References

A link format for a ~handle that the reader can resolve and verify. /protocols/alter-uri-scheme/

## Consent-Bound Identity Disclosure with Subject Settlement for HTTP-Native Agent Payments

When an AI pays to read something about a person, the read needs that person's consent and part of the payment goes to them. /protocols/consent-settlement/

## Identity-Attributed Git Commits via Tier-Structured Trailers

Commit records that say which person, bot or AI did the work. /protocols/identity-attributed-commits/

## Authorised and Attributable Agent Authority for Operational-Technology Control Actions

An AI's command to industrial equipment is refused unless it proves who it acts for and that a person authorised it. /protocols/ot-command-authority/

## [UC] An AI agent acting for a person reads and writes their storage

https://github.com/w3c/lws-ucs/issues/266

## [wg/agenticweb] Name the user an agent acts for in the identity and delegation scope

https://github.com/w3c/charter-drafts/issues/904

## Use Case - An accountable, verified person behind the paying agent, without disclosing identity

https://github.com/x402-foundation/wg-identity/issues/45

## Write

blake@truealter.com

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