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Excited to announce our collaboration with @ipfs.tech and https://dasl.ing on two new standards for the next thousand years of decentralized social video: S2PA and MUXL! Together they give us a standard for self-certifying and content-addressable media in the decentralized social ecosystem.

S2PA is a standardization of "Streamplace-flavored C2PA" that we've had in production for more than a year. C2PA has some great ideas about media provenance but the part where you pay Digicert hundreds of dollars to sign media is antiquated. Instead: K-256 signing, dids, decentralized identity.

MUXL aims to extend content addressing to media containers: it's like DRISL for MP4 files. Ever tried to concatenate two MP4 files and then split them, recovering the same two files you started with? I have. It's really hard. We're solving the problem with a canonical standard, Rust, and WASM.

Taken together, the two standards make media a first-class primitive in the decentralized social web. You get a path to creator provenance, decentralized distribution, and remixing of content. Video is the richest way for us to interact, we shouldn't be treating them as detached, opaque blobs!