C2PA Specification 2.3 defines a technical standard for content provenance and authenticity. Whether governments should mandate it is a separate ask.
C2PA developed a technical specification for providing content provenance and authenticity.
Publication updates the voluntary technical baseline used in provenance and labelling debates.
Open provenance standards such as C2PA already exist. The dispute is whether law should require them or leave adoption voluntary.
Open technical standard for attaching and validating content provenance assertions.
The specification states C2PA developed a technical standard for providing content provenance and authenticity.
To address this issue at scale … the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) has developed this technical specification for providing content provenance and authenticity.Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity · C2PA Specification 2.3 · §1.1
Legal mandates that cite C2PA remain sparse relative to voluntary-adoption coverage.
Coverage is grouped by source type and compared with the primary policy record. Missing source groups remain visible rather than being filled by assumption.