The four tiers in plain language, and the exact wording each one permits. Tier 0 is a declaration; only Tiers I and II involve us reading anything.
Ingrid Palm, Registrar
Registrar, AI Certification Standards
Holds the appointed post of Registrar: cuts releases, freezes the dated trees, maintains the deprecation record and administers the register of conformance claims.
Writes the practical guidance on coverage maps and tiers because those are the documents that arrive on this desk incomplete.
AI Certification Standards · interests declared in full below
Nothing further is declared. An author with nothing to declare says so explicitly, so that silence is never mistaken for absence.
Taught and assessed are different claims. The gap between them is where a coverage map is most often used to imply something it does not say.
An identifier is a contract with every credential that cited it. Renumbering would silently change what those credentials claim, years after they were awarded.
Everything on this page is non-normative · page last reviewed 30.08.2026