Ayra Protocol Concepts

Reading Paths

Different audiences need different things from this documentation. Start where it makes sense for you:

Business Leaders

Understand the value proposition and why your organization should care.

1. Executive Summary — high-level overview

2. Why the Ayra Protocol — the full business case, bake-it-in argument, and implementation readiness

3. Use Cases — concrete scenarios across industries

Product Leaders

Understand what the protocol does, how it works, and where it fits.

1. The Main Idea — simple card, powerful payloads

2. The Dance — the metaphor for how Ayra Protocol interactions work

3. Interactions — the three core protocol interactions (connect, present, access payloads)

4. Payloads — how complexity moves out of the credential and into extensible payloads

5. Credential Family — Business Card, Staff Pass, and future types

Technical Leaders and Architects

Understand the standards, decisions, and conformance requirements.

1. Technical Decisions — W3C VCDM 2.0, DIDComm 2.1, did:webvh, and other choices

2. Components & Specs — Trust Registries, CTS, Type Catalogue, TRQP

3. Schema — credential schema source of truth (ayra-governed-artifacts)

4. Authorization Taxonomy — the ayracards:TYPE:SCOPE:ACTION format

5. All Components In Play — how the protocol exercises the full Ayra Trust Network

6. Interactions — protocol sequence detail

Ayra Protocol Specifics

• Ayra Card Credential Family — the Ayra Protocol defines a family of credentials (Business Card, Staff Pass, and future types)

• Payloads — complexity moves out of the credential; the Ayra Card shares just enough information to get to the next step in the dance, with payloads carrying the rest

• Interactions — the three core interactions: connect, present credential, access payloads

General Concepts

• The Dance — the Ayra Protocol standardizes the opening moves of trusted interactions; business needs determine what follows

• All Components In Play — the Ayra Protocol exercises all components of the Ayra Trust Network (Trust Registries, CTS, Type Catalogue) across business, governance, and technology

• Alignment with First Person Project — how the Ayra Protocol relates to and supports FPP