BRAND NOTES — NON-NORMATIVE

Two domains.
One conversation.

RTTP.COM resolves where — and when. IQA.ORG states whether. Two schemes, two domains, three questions in one exchange — and where the two agree, action begins. Two of the oldest suffixes on the web, each still doing its ancestral job: .COM the operating side, .ORG the institutional one.

rttp://CRI 27
the question

RTTP.COM

RTTP (rttp://) — Resonant Time Transfer Protocol. "Time transfer" is a real engineering discipline: keeping distant clocks in agreement without a shared wire. RTTP applies the same discipline to intent — an address that two parties compute into agreement: no lookup, no registry, no asking anyone. The name carries the mechanism: Resonant (agreement by computation), Time (the discipline it borrows), Transfer (the delivery of intent). The two layers are one claim: intent addressing under a real-time constraint — addressing by intent, synchronized in time. And the constraint is kept by structure, not by benchmarks: resolution is computation (one SHA-256, zero network calls), so the latency of addressing an intent is bounded and does not scale with the network.

.COM is the operating side of the house: the packages on PyPI, npm and crates, the conformance vectors, the URI Center, the source on GitHub — where the question is tooled. A subject without standing can compute addresses here all day; the domain never asks who they are.

iqa://CRI 28
the answer

IQA.ORG

IQA (iqa://) — four readings, all true:

  1. Identity Quality Assurance — the scheme's own expansion, and the one the Internet-Draft uses: what an iqa verdict attests is the quality of an identity — measured, attested, standing.
  2. International Quality Assurance — the institutional voice of the prefix.
  3. Image Quality Assessment — the true etymology. The name grew out of a real research field; the specification's own scope section says so. It survives scrutiny.
  4. "I QA" — I, the answerer. In the dual-scheme design rttp asks and iqa answers; the domain spells its role.

And since v1.3.1 the answer even has a wire form of its own: AE-128 — one hundred and twenty-eight bytes, one datagram, verifiable offline by anyone with only a hash function. An answer you can carry in one hand.

.ORG is where the answer is rendered: the Organs, the standing vocabulary, the trust anchor. Every iqa URI ends in .iqa — the namespace and the domain are the same word, and the anchor lives at this address.

the pairing

Q and A, as domain names

One scheme computes where; the other states whether. The two domains are literally the question and the answer of the same protocol — the questioning channel and the attestation channel, each with its own name, never merged, never confused.

rttp resolves where and when, iqa states whether — and where the two agree, action begins.

This page is about names, not norms. The normative texts are the combined Internet-Draft draft-li-rttp-iqa-addressing-00 and the reference specification it cites. Everything above is brand narrative — take the vectors instead: iqa.org/challenge/ · or play with it first: iqa.org/demo/.