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Who Verifies the Verifier?
IGSO VisionLeo CheungSep 16, 20268 min read0 views

Who Verifies the Verifier?

IGSO argues that a claim about a product should be checkable rather than trusted. That argument has an obvious edge, and it is fair to point it at the institution making it. This article sets out what a reader can verify about IGSO without asking IGSO โ€” a registry number, a published set of standards, a jurisdiction, and a resolver that has to be able to say no โ€” and names the parts of its governance that are not yet published to the same standard.

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Versatile Trace: Why a Traceability Record Is Not the Same as an Identity
IGSO VisionLeo CheungSep 2, 20267 min read0 views

Versatile Trace: Why a Traceability Record Is Not the Same as an Identity

A carton arrives at a wholesale market carrying one identity. It is opened, and twenty consumer packs leave the building carrying another. Most traceability systems lose the product at exactly that moment. Versatile Trace exists because the hard problem in traceability is not recording events โ€” it is keeping identity continuous when the unit changes.

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