Advisory

For most of the past fifteen years my work has been at the source of the standards that govern trusted communications — STIR/SHAKEN and the IETF, ATIS, and ITU-T frameworks that carriers, regulators, and vendors build on. That vantage point has a useful property: it surfaces where trust and identity requirements are heading well before they arrive, and it makes it possible to tell whether an architecture, a technical claim, or a regulatory bet is sound.

The same questions are now surfacing in AI — identity, delegated authority, and verifiable trust for autonomous agents. These are, in large part, problems the telephone network has already had to solve: certificate governance, transparency, accountable delegation. Having operationalized a trust framework of that kind at national scale in a regulated industry, I help companies and institutions working on the AI version get the architecture and the governance right.

Where I’m useful

• Reading the pipeline early — where standards and regulation are heading, and what it means for strategy and exposure.
• Technical due diligence — separating real capability from claim, for investors, acquirers, and boards.
• Trust and identity architecture — the design, and the governance that has to surround it.
• Positioning and credibility — in markets where trust is the product.

How I work

Board, advisory-board, and selective advisory roles — kept few and chosen for fit. My standing governance and standards roles, including service on the SIP Forum board and co-chair roles across ATIS, the IETF, and CFCA, are on the public record — the fuller account of the work behind this page.

If your work sits in this space and this vantage point would be useful, I’m reachable at chris@appliedbits.com.