The ARIA Founding Charter.

Article I

Mission

ARIA exists to define, maintain, and certify against an open standard for real-time deepfake detection that protects the integrity of human interaction worldwide. The Alliance is a non-profit, vendor-neutral body, owned by no single participant.

Article II

The Seven Founding Principles

Every product or system certified under this charter shall satisfy seven first-principle requirements. They are fixed here, and may be amended only under Article V.

1. 01Real-time
2. 02On-device capable
3. 03Air-gap compatible
4. 04Privacy-preserving
5. 05Hardware-agnostic
6. 06Transparent scoring
7. 07Independently testable

Article III

Governance & Neutrality

Direction is set by a vote of the membership. No single member — including any founding or catalyzing organization — may hold a controlling share of that vote. The Alliance operates under neutral fiscal sponsorship, and the technical authorship of the specification rests with an independent academic partner rather than any commercial member.

Article IV

Independence of Certification

Conformance is verified by accredited, neutral academic laboratories. Per-product audit fees are paid directly to those laboratories. ARIA derives no revenue from certifying any individual product, and no member may certify its own products without independent evaluation.

Article V

Amendment

The specification is versioned. The seven founding principles and this charter may be amended only by a qualified vote of the membership, conducted in the open, with every change published against a public version history.

Article VI

Open Participation

Membership is open to industry, academia, civil society, and government observers. Regulators may participate as non-voting observers. Academic and non-profit participation is waived or nominal, so that the standard is shaped by capability, not budget.