{
 "kind": "csoai.root-witness/v1",
 "as_of": "2026-09-05T12:39:37Z",
 "note": "Witnesses for the live signed public root — existence/time of these exact bytes. Not certification, not endorsement, not a rank sale. Never mint a token. ONE root anchor, never N leaves.",
 "artifact": {
  "url": "https://councilof.ai/root.json",
  "also": "https://councilof.ai/api/root",
  "sha256": "8c6a27eae08cb7570d5b3e570fbecc4f7f3220942cc158c893565aab814b80c2",
  "bytes": 14518,
  "merkle_root": "6347384aa686920feca2f6cd875664c4719b1cd8224c0021dd7a38347f872353",
  "card_count": 167,
  "as_of": "2026-09-05T12:39:29Z"
 },
 "corpus_scope": {
  "relationship": "SEPARATE_CORPORA",
  "public_root_count": 167,
  "public_root_sha256": "8c6a27eae08cb7570d5b3e570fbecc4f7f3220942cc158c893565aab814b80c2",
  "signed_card_count": 335,
  "signed_card_id_overlap": 0,
  "ots_covers": "PUBLIC_ROOT_BYTES_ONLY",
  "note": "The 167 public-root leaves and 335 separately indexed signed cards are separate corpora with 0 identifier overlap. This root and its OTS proof do not anchor the signed-card index."
 },
 "signature": {
  "did": "did:web:csoai.org#board-attestation-1",
  "field": "sig_ed25519",
  "preimage_fields": [
   "kind",
   "schema",
   "as_of",
   "merkle_root",
   "card_count",
   "did_intended"
  ],
  "preimage_canonical": "JSON sorted keys, separators (',',':'), ensure_ascii=false, UTF-8",
  "preimage_sha256": "10646aa5f3e057c1a484fea0cb08d6eae78acd2f1a7947d7564c6cea6c0102fa",
  "preimage_bytes": 274,
  "verified_against_did_json": true
 },
 "witnesses": {
  "rekor": {
   "status": "WITNESSED",
   "uuid": "108e9186e8c5677a32689653d232d97e53c3735807451cfeeea602d3f7676589698fadba89afe733",
   "logIndex": 2725530630,
   "integratedTime": 1788611972,
   "logID": "c0d23d6ad406973f9559f3ba2d1ca01f84147d8ffc5b8445c224f98b9591801d",
   "new": true,
   "url": "https://rekor.sigstore.dev/api/v1/log/entries?logIndex=2725530630",
   "type": "rekord/x509 over the preimage bytes with the board signature",
   "entry_file": "https://councilof.ai/interop/rekor-root-8c6a27ea.json"
  },
  "ots": {
   "path": "public/interop/root-8c6a27ea.json.ots",
   "url": "https://councilof.ai/interop/root-8c6a27ea.json.ots",
   "proof_sha256": "73f49f2f16864cbfa75f126bba56571b285ec5c5ea6fa882565d4f041c12550c",
   "subject_sha256": "8c6a27eae08cb7570d5b3e570fbecc4f7f3220942cc158c893565aab814b80c2",
   "bitcoin_blocks": [],
   "observed_at": "2026-09-05T12:39:36Z",
   "scope": "PUBLIC_ROOT_BYTES_ONLY",
   "status": "STAMPED_PENDING_BITCOIN",
   "note": "Status is derived from the proof bytes. Pending is not a Bitcoin timestamp."
  },
  "eas_base": {
   "status": "NOT_YET",
   "reason": "no EAS attestation in the append-only log matches this root.json sha256",
   "log": "https://councilof.ai/interop/eas-root-attestations.json"
  },
  "xrpl_memo": {
   "status": "NOT_YET",
   "reason": "needs a funded XRPL account (owner); one memo tx carrying sha256(root.json)"
  }
 },
 "verify_hints": [
  "https://councilof.ai/signed/HOW-TO-VERIFY-ROOT.md"
 ],
 "conflict": {
  "status": "NONE",
  "rule": "equal as_of + unequal merkle_root among this publisher's witnessed roots = CONFLICT; a reader must treat neither as current",
  "as_of": "2026-09-05T12:39:29Z",
  "merkle_root": "6347384aa686920feca2f6cd875664c4719b1cd8224c0021dd7a38347f872353",
  "sidecars_scanned": 11,
  "conflicts": [],
  "byte_variants": [],
  "limit": "sees only roots this publisher witnessed and kept; independent witnesses cover the hidden-root case"
 }
}