AIP
Archive Integrity Protocol
Records that survive custody.
A records system that keeps evidence verifiable after it changes hands.
- Replaces
- File servers and document management stacks where provenance breaks when custody transfers.
- Used by
- Records custodians, legal hold teams, and inspectors general during audits, FOIA requests, and litigation hold.
- Without it
- A record produced in year ten cannot be proven to be the same record filed in year one.
- Content-addressed records with cryptographic lineage
- Custody transitions logged as protocol events
- Verification independent of original storage