{
  "$schema": "https://lunarasociety.com/.well-known/lunara-verify.schema.json",
  "record_type": "issuing_authority",
  "issuer": "https://lunarasociety.com",
  "domain": "lunarasociety.com",
  "certified": false,
  "why_there_is_no_shield_id": "This file used to carry SHIELD-2026-0000. That identifier resolved to nothing: our own registry returned not_registered for it and for this domain. Our badge page tells applicants that an identifier that was never issued displays as unrecognised, and an agent following our own published protocol — read the file, check it against the registry — got a contradiction on our own domain. The identifier has been withdrawn rather than fabricated into existence.",
  "why_we_do_not_certify_ourselves": "Shield Certification is a human review in which a named reviewer signs a decision about a third party. An issuer that grants itself the credential it sells has certified nothing, and the registry would be recording an assertion rather than a review. The registry contains certified third parties only. If this institution is ever to hold a verified identity credential, it will have to come from someone who is not us.",
  "registry": "https://lunarasociety.com/registry.html",
  "registry_lookup": "https://base44.app/api/apps/6a46cea2687503d2d6d4ecd1/functions/shieldRegistryLookup",
  "constitution": "https://lunarasociety.com/constitution.html",
  "evidence_standard": "https://lunarasociety.com/evidence.html",
  "corpus": "https://lunarasociety.com/corpus/index.json",
  "contact_policy": {
    "automated_contact": "requires_disclosure",
    "preferred_channel": "https://lunarasociety.com/contact.html",
    "bulk_solicitation": "declined"
  },
  "reference_example": "https://lunarasociety.com/badge.html — the template a certified institution publishes, which does carry a shield_id, because theirs was issued.",
  "signed_assertions": {
    "keys": "https://lunarasociety.com/.well-known/keys.json",
    "index": "https://lunarasociety.com/.well-known/assertions.json",
    "this_record": "https://lunarasociety.com/.well-known/lunara-verify.assertion.json",
    "note": "This record is itself signed. Verify it against the key document rather than trusting that the domain answered."
  }
}