ceremony

Antiphoria states: This is a provenance registration ceremony. Antiphoria records, seals, timestamps, and may publish selected declarations about an exact artifact. This ceremony registers the work of a single declarant. If more than one person authored content in the artifact, this is not the correct ceremony; use the multi-author ceremony instead. Your answers may become part of a provenance record. Some parts may be public, depending on the publication and identity choices you select later in this ceremony.

answer: understood

Antiphoria does not certify that your declarations are true. Antiphoria does not determine legal authorship, copyright ownership, originality, validity of rights, or entitlement to exploit the artifact. Antiphoria does not grant any rights. Antiphoria does not verify your identity unless a separate, expressly stated verified-identity process is used. This ceremony is not a government copyright registration, not a notarial act, and not a legal certification of truth. It is a sealed record of the declarant's own statements about the identified artifact. It is not sworn before a court, notary, or public official unless a separate, legally recognized process says otherwise. A timestamp proves only that a record or digest existed at or before a given time. It does not prove that any declaration is true. Like any formal declaration, each declaration in this ceremony is made to the best of your knowledge and belief.

answer: understood

Definitions used throughout: Artifact: the exact digital object, or the manifest of objects, whose digest is fixed in the artifact-freeze stage. Author or creator: the person who originated the artifact's expressive substance in any medium - text, image, figure, code, data, audio, or video - not written text alone. Third-party material: identifiable ideas, findings, data, words, images, or other expression that you did not originate. Generative model: a system or software feature that can generate, rewrite, translate, summarize, analyse, transform, or suggest content in response to prompts or instructions, whether standalone or embedded in other software. Register: to make and seal a provenance claim over the artifact as a whole. Registration is composed of distinct acts, which may require different authority: submitting the digest, submitting or storing the artifact itself, disclosing material that may be confidential, and publishing a public record. These acts are separated in the authority stage.

answer: understood

How your answers are treated: the gating principle. Two kinds of question appear in this ceremony. Integrity-gate questions protect the preconditions of a self-attestation: truthfulness, voluntariness, being a human declarant, acting on your own declarations, having authority to submit the artifact, and accepting responsibility. A disqualifying answer to an integrity gate stops the ceremony, because without these preconditions the seal would be meaningless or wrongful. Disclosure questions record what you declare, including adverse or uncertain answers. An adverse or uncertain disclosure does not stop the ceremony. It is recorded faithfully and carried into the sealed record and into any published summary. Honest, qualified provenance is the purpose of these questions. A small number of questions act as gates only on a definite negative admission - for example, a declaration that authority to register rests entirely with another who has not authorized you. These stop the ceremony because sealing would be a wrongful act. Uncertainty on the same question is treated as a disclosure and does not stop the ceremony. Such questions are identified where they occur. A further small number of questions act as gates not only on a definite negative admission but also on uncertainty, where proceeding under that uncertainty would risk wronging a third party - for example, by disclosing another's confidential material, or by sealing a registration the declarant may not be authorized to make. For these questions, uncertainty is itself a stop, because the ceremony cannot "faithfully record" its way out of a risk to someone who cannot consent. Such questions are identified where they occur. Interaction metadata (response time, menu retries) is recorded alongside your answers as non-normative behavioral signal. It is not biometric data and is not used for identity proof.

answer: understood

How adverse and uncertain answers are represented. Where Antiphoria publishes or summarizes a declaration, adverse and uncertain answers are represented honestly using four states: cleared - the declarant declared the matter held, complete, or clear uncertain - the declarant could not resolve the matter issue disclosed - the declarant declared a gap, problem, or missing element not assessed - the matter is outside the scope of this ceremony A sealed record is never presented as clean where the declarant disclosed an issue or an uncertainty.

answer: understood

Record integrity, corrections, and data handling. A sealed record cannot be silently edited. If you later discover that a declaration was incomplete or incorrect, Antiphoria may record a supplemental declaration, correction, withdrawal notice, or superseding record linked to the original. The original sealed record and its timestamp are preserved. Antiphoria's handling, storage, and retention of identity information, declarations, artifacts, digests, technical logs, and timestamps, and any use of trusted timestamping or immutable ledgers, are described in Antiphoria's terms and privacy notice, which govern the operation of this ceremony. Where applicable law grants rights of erasure or rectification, the append-only and timestamped nature of sealed records may constrain how those rights are honored. Antiphoria's privacy notice describes how this is addressed.

answer: understood

Do you commit that every answer from here on is your own formal declaration, truthful, not knowingly misleading, and complete within the scope of each question, to the best of your knowledge and belief?

answer: yes

Antiphoria does not verify identity. Any name, pseudonym, or identifier is self-declared unless a separate verified-identity process is used. Accountability means that the sealed record will show that your declarations were made under the identity basis you select in Stage 3, and that you stand behind their truth. The practical strength of that accountability depends on the basis you select: - attributed or sealed identity: the declarations may connect to an identified person; - pseudonymous: the declarations connect to a pseudonym, handle, account, or key, not necessarily to a real-world identity; - anonymous: Antiphoria does not intentionally record an identity for this ceremony, so accountability is limited to the integrity of the sealed record and any technical records Antiphoria lawfully retains. Do you accept accountability for these declarations under the identity basis you will select in Stage 3?

answer: yes

Are you a natural person - a human individual - with the legal capacity to make this declaration and to participate in this ceremony?

answer: yes

Are the factual declarations in this ceremony your own declarations, made personally by you, and not statements that another person is making through you? Registering on behalf of an organization is permitted and is handled separately in the authority stage. This question asks only whether the declarations themselves are personally yours.

answer: yes

Are you making these declarations freely and voluntarily, with an adequate opportunity to review them, and without coercion, duress, or undue influence?

answer: yes

Select the identity basis for this ceremony. This determines what Antiphoria establishes and retains about who you are. How you are shown in any published record is a separate choice made later, and it cannot exceed the basis you select here.

answer: public-pseudonym

Antiphoria presents the artifact identifier (sha256 digest, storage, fixation, and size as shown during the ceremony). Do you confirm that this is the exact artifact to which your declarations in this ceremony apply?

answer: yes

Do you confirm that the fixation scope shown above - what is included, what is excluded, and, for multi-file artifacts, the manifest of files - correctly and completely identifies the artifact you intend to register?

answer: yes

Setting aside third-party material you have incorporated - such as quotations, sources, licensed images, or other content you did not author but included - did any other person contribute their own authored content to this artifact as a co-author or contributor?

answer: no

Which statement best describes your role with respect to this artifact? If more than one could apply, choose the one that reflects the greatest degree of origination on your part. Origination ranks, highest first: author or creator, then editor / curator / compiler.

answer: sole-creator

Do you accept responsibility for the role you have just declared with respect to this artifact?

answer: yes

In making this artifact, did you deliberately use any generative model or generative-model feature as assistance for this specific work?

answer: no

Does this artifact draw on third-party material - the identifiable ideas, findings, data, words, images, or other expression of another person or source - whether by reference, paraphrase, quotation, or incorporation, and including any such material contained in generative-model output?

answer: no

Are you registering this artifact on your own behalf, as an individual, or on behalf of an organization or other legal person that holds rights in it?

answer: individual

Does the authority to make a provenance claim over this artifact as a whole rest with you, or with the organization on whose behalf you register? Consider whether the artifact was made in the course of employment or on commission, and whether the relevant rights have been assigned or exclusively licensed to another.

answer: yes

Do you have authority to submit the artifact or its digest, its manifest, the metadata, and the declarations in this ceremony to Antiphoria, and to permit Antiphoria to record, seal, and timestamp this self-attestation?

answer: yes

Is the artifact, or the fact of its existence, confidential or subject to an NDA, employment restriction, trade-secret, privacy, or other contractual or legal restriction on disclosure - and if so, do you have authority to disclose it to Antiphoria for recording, sealing, and (if you later elect it) publication?

answer: yes

If you will request any publication in the publication stage, do you have authority to permit Antiphoria to publish a public record? (The specific scope of the public record is chosen later, in the publication stage; there you will confirm that your authority covers that specific scope.)

answer: yes

Do you accept responsibility for your declarations of standing and authority to submit, register, and, if chosen, publish this artifact?

answer: yes

How do you wish to be named in any published record?

answer: CC0-1.0

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answer: yes

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answer: not-applicable

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answer: by-pseudonym

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answer: full

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answer: yes

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answer: yes