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Invented engagement example. No real provider finding.

UNVERIFIABLE

Your directory: Listed as an active provider · Published source: No active registry entry for the listed identifier

Supported action: The registry search completed and returned no active entry matching the directory’s identifier at the observed time.

Limit: Whether the provider holds a registry registration — absence of a match is not absence of a registration.

Evidence & verification

The readings used

Your directory

Listed as an active provider

Observed Sep 18, 2026 10:00 UTC · excerpt sha256 7a9d31e6c05f4012b8d3e6c29f17a3d5e8c41b09a7f52d6318e5c0b9d42a77f6

NPPES registry

No active registry entry for the listed identifier

Observed Sep 22, 2026 09:00 UTC · excerpt sha256 e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855

Why these readings are comparable

Subject binding not established: the NPPES registry search returned no active entry matching the directory’s identifier.

Both readings address the same field: the provider’s registry listing.

Subject binding NOT established — the readings must not be combined.

The readings are dated: Sep 18, 2026 (directory) and Sep 22, 2026 (registry).

Rule: directory-vs-nppes-registry, version 1

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Integrity

Not run.

Issuer recognition

Not checked.

Currentness

Not established.

Not run — invented example; nothing here is signed

An intact signature establishes that the signed material has not changed. It does not establish that the authority is right.

Signature checking is local. No checkpoint is included with this evidence.

Technical evidence +

Digests

Claimed excerpt sha256 7a9d31e6c05f4012b8d3e6c29f17a3d5e8c41b09a7f52d6318e5c0b9d42a77f6

Authority excerpt sha256 e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855

Canonical recipe

Canonical form: stableStringify — one canonicalisation, no second recipe (published on the Technical page with the downloadable verifier).

Signature

Signed scope: not established

Public key: not established

Dependency manifest sha256: not established

Issuer configuration

Issuer keys: /.well-known/woc-issuer-keys.json

Checkpoint reference: Currentness not established.

Technical evidence — the downloadable verifier, issuer keys, canonicalization and raw views.