# TrustCarry Protocol v0.3 — Research Claim 070

**Sealed record identifier.** `kaal:research-claim:persona-protocol-v0.3:070`

**Author-affirmed research claim.** Projection profiles should be openly published and selected locally by relying parties because a specification body that controls both evidence schema and canonical scoring holds unrecorded allocative power.

**Status.** Public research record. Not yet eligible for the published-source scholarly claim layer.

**Claim type.** normative

**Holds when.**

- Persona Protocol v0.3 as proposed; not an adopted standard

**Protocol.** TrustCarry Protocol v0.3, historically titled and aliased as Persona Protocol v0.3.

**Supporting passage from Persona Protocol v0.3.**

> Governance of the projection profile deserves separate treatment because it is the locus of capture. A specification body that controls both the evidence schema and the canonical scoring rule holds allocative power that no authority grant records. The failure pattern is well documented: recentralization is the central obstacle to decentralized governance of AI systems (Kaal 2024a, claim 4796714-012), and consensus mechanisms that weight power by holdings "centralize control based on the quantity of tokens held, potentially skewing governance in favor of the wealthy" (Kaal 2024a, claim 4796714-014). Persona Protocol therefore treats profile publication as open and profile selection as local to the relying party.

**Source locator.** Line 278 of the sealed v0.3 source.

**Source SHA-256.** `38efc43b80ab62426ca1f946114677afeda730bca30dda71dfd299223a6def7c`

**Provenance.** Direct author affirmation of exact batch `persona-protocol-v0.3-new-claims-2026-08-01`. The source manuscript remains an unpublished research draft.

**License.** CC BY 4.0; attribute Wulf A. Kaal and cite the canonical record URL.

**Limit.** This record is public and citable as an author-affirmed research proposition. It is not a claim extracted from a canonical published paper, is not an adopted standard, and does not alter the 5,033 scholarly claim layer.