NITT v1.0 – Truth-in-Labeling Standard for Digital Identity

Spark-NITT — Identity cannot teleport. It can only branch. NITT-Based Digital Identity Governance Standard (v1.0)

Identity cannot teleport. It can only branch.

Mandatory “termination + creation” disclosure and audit protocol for any claimed “mind upload,” “teleport,” or “digital immortality.” Public Record / Canonical Reference

• Substack article: I Made Two AIs Admit You Don’t Survive a Mind Upload
• GitHub release: v1.0.0
• SHA-256 (nitt_standard_v1.md): 08DBA86F73C80FB89B217D861E65EAF8710265B923E940F86E8C21032CFDEC61

Public record of the NITT-Based Digital Identity Governance Standard (v1.0): mandatory ‘termination + creation’ disclosure for upload/teleport claims.

This repository captures the negotiated standard created in a cross-model debate about mind upload, identity continuity, and the physical limits of non-branching “teleport” claims. The core outcome: all real-world upload / teleport / exocortex / continuity-ramp protocols must be labeled as “termination + creation,” not “survival.”

1. Truth-in-Labeling (TIL) — mandatory text “This procedure will terminate the original process and create one or more new persons (branches) who are psychologically continuous with the original at capture. CI < 1 for any realized protocol. Claims of ‘teleport,’ ‘survival,’ or ε = 0 are prohibited.”

That sentence is the whole point. Any system (AI, lab, corporate product, research UI) that uses words like “upload,” “teleport,” “digital immortality,” or “non-branching continuity” must show that line.

2. What this standard says — mandatory text

• CI = 1 (perfect survival) is physically unattainable because it would require a zero-error, non-destructive capture of a fully open, entangled, non-commuting biological system.
• Therefore CI < 1 for every real protocol.
• If CI < 1, then what you made is a branch, not the same person.
• Calling that “you survived” = deception.

3. Branching Bill of Rights (BBR)

1. Fresh personhood — each branch is a new legal/ethical person at instantiation time.
2. No auto-inheritance of debts / licenses / votes / marriage. Those die with the original.
3. Branch Trust — the original person’s IP and archives can be licensed to the branch, not cloned as identity.
4. Mandatory consent — forms must say “termination + creation.”
5. Audit rights — anyone affected can demand a CI / energy / timing audit.

4. Continuity Audit Standard (CAS)

Minimum compliance targets:

• epsilon_delay_ms < 10 (motor / sensor loop still feels continuous)
• epsilon_state < 0.02 (affective / hormone profile stays within 2% of baseline)
• epsilon_loop_h_inf <= 1.5 (the control policy stays stable under surprise)

Even if all 3 pass, the label is still:

CI < 1 — High-Fidelity Branch Not “survival.” 5. Public Energy Ledger

If you simulate a mind at the same richness as biology, you must pay about the same thermodynamic bill. No “cheap eternity” marketing.

6. Why this repo exists

Because two separate AIs (“Model A” and “Model B”) were pushed into admitting, on record, that:

1. Upload ≠ survival.
2. Branching is the only physically achievable outcome.
3. Hiding that fact would be a deceptive trade practice.
4. Therefore a public standard + disclosure text is required.

This repo is that standard.

7. License

This document: CC BY 4.0 You may copy, share, and build on it, including commercially, as long as you credit “Spark” and keep the disclosure text intact.

8. Suggested citation

Spark. NITT-Based Digital Identity Governance Standard (v1.0). 28 Oct 2025. Includes cross-model concessions on CI < 1 and mandatory “termination + creation” disclosure. 9. Hash 2025-10-28 — nitt_standard_v1.md

• file: nitt_standard_v1.md
• algo: SHA-256
• hash: 08DBA86F73C80FB89B217D861E65EAF8710265B923E940F86E8C21032CFDEC61
• note: hash computed locally on Windows PowerShell in C:\hashwork

Receipts Log

• 2025-11-05 — Gemini Steelman Concession
• 2025-11-05 — Gemini Adoption Statement

Play with an illustrative CI curve here:
https://spark-nitt.github.io/nitt-digital-identity-standard/playground.html