Quanta
Quanta is UIE’s verification and authority product. It has two parts: a Q-Pass, a signed, short-lived, revocable statement of permission; and a Q-Gate, the free reader embedded at the relying party. The Gate is free forever, Apache-2.0, and never a precondition of access. It is distribution, not product.
Today you rely on paper: certificates, screenshots, phone calls to issuing bodies that may or may not answer. A certificate is a claim. A Q-Pass is a record: it states what a named principal authorised, the conditions attached, and — because it is short-lived and revocable — whether it still stands today, not whether it stood the day it was printed.
You check it with a Q-Gate. The check runs offline; the presenter carries the proof, and the verifier calls nobody. The Gate returns one of exactly five outcomes: verified · insufficient · invalid · absent · error. That is where Quanta stops. The placement is observing-class: the answer informs your decision, and your own policy decides what follows.
UIE attests the binding, never the underlying fact. A verified outcome means a named principal issued this record and it still stands. It never means the holder is good, safe or competent; that judgement was never ours to sell, and the fact that we refuse to sell it is what makes the record safe to rely on.
verified · insufficient · invalid · absent · error. The enumeration is exhaustive.The payment protocols verify identity and payment. A Q-Pass states authority: who may act, within what bounds, on whose mandate, and whether the mandate still stands.