Research
Publications
Specifications, design notes and technical reports. Specifications are normative; notes explain the reasoning behind them.
Specifications
- IDOP Format Specification 1.0Available
Candidate Recommendation. Container, manifest, Runtime API, permissions, security, IANA considerations.
1 October 2026 - IDOP Workspace Containers 1.0Available
Workspaces, projects, the .idopbundle transport and the Portable Items contract.
1 October 2026 - IDOP Format Specification 1.1 — Working DraftPreview
An additive minor version defining an optional document thumbnail.
4 October 2026
Design notes and reports
Design notePreviewThumbnails without trust — designing IDOP 1.1Why the IDOP 1.1 thumbnail is PNG only, one size, passive, never a reason to refuse a package, and never drawn where it could pass for the reader's interface.Design noteSecrets that never enter the fileHow IDOP lets a document call an API with the user's key without ever seeing the key — credential bindings, origin pinning and the reader as broker.Design noteValidation before execution — why IDOP has no best-effort modeAn IDOP reader checks every byte of a package before any of it runs, and refuses the whole file on the first failure. This note explains the reasoning, and what it costs.
IDOP LABS has not published peer-reviewed papers. When we do, they will be listed here with their venue.