ICCA: Design Principles: Trustless by Architecture, Not Policy
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: ICCA: Identity Constructed Communication ArchitectureVolume II: Structural Design PrinciplesPaper: ICCA: Design Principles: Trustless by Architecture, Not Policy Trustless by Architecture, Not Policy establishes the geometric inversion that distinguishes ICCA from legacy digital systems. Trustlessness is not achieved through policy enforcement, behavioural monitoring, or compliance frameworks. It emerges because the architecture itself removes the informational substrate required for trust identity visibility, metadata continuity, behavioural residue and provider inference.ICCA is trustless because identity constructs and dissolves, providers operate blind, validation reveals nothing, transport produces no metadata and operational volumes collapse instantly. No policy can create trustlessness; only geometry can. This paper defines trustlessness as a structural condition: a system in which trust is not required because the architecture eliminates every surface where trust could be exploited.
Source: Figshare
Author: Karl A L Smith
Language: English
Topic: Access Control and Trust
Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7203752236