C2PA Conformance Program and Explorer

Name: C2PA Conformance Program and Explorer
Creator: Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), Conformance Task Force

Provenance meta-aggregator / Media and images

Media and imagesregistryactive

C2PA Conformance Program and Explorer is a registry from Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), Conformance Task Force. The object it attaches provenance to: a digital asset with its Content Credential (C2PA manifest); the registry's own unit is the product or signer.

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The C2PA Conformance Program provides assurance that products adhere to the Content Credentials specification, and fulfill a set of security requirements to ensure they are producing and validating C2PA data correctly.

In its own words: https://c2pa.org/conformance/, read 2026-10-29

What it carries

What receives provenance	a digital asset with its Content Credential (C2PA manifest); the registry's own unit is the product or signer
Relations carried	signing; creation and edit history (ingredients); trust-list membership
Carrier	signed C2PA manifests; the conformance lists as JSON
Expresses · records · tests	expressesrecordstests
Operations tested	none
What survived	not tested here: conformance concerns producing and validating C2PA data correctly
Depends on	C2PA Steering Committee; C2PA Trust List; C2PA TSA Trust List; the Certificate Policy

op the operator's own statement · 3p a third-party account · obs our observation · rd our reading. Hover a tag for its quote; each opens below with its source.

Entity

Canonical name	C2PA Conformance Program and Explorer
Also known as	C2PA Conforming Products List, C2PA Trust List, Content Credentials conformance
Address	https://c2pa.org/conformance/
Operator	Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA), Conformance Task Force
Founded	June 2025 (the program)
Kind	registry
Unit	a conforming generator or validator product, or a trust-list entry op
Lifecycle	active — program opened June 2025, now v0.2 op
Count	286 records in the conforming-products JSON list (as of 2026-10-29) obs
Data access	Conformance Explorer; JSON lists on GitHub
Versions and dates	program: v0.2; explainer read: 2.4; read: 2026-10-29
Observation	2026-10-29: read

Relations

Neighbours

IPTC Metawatch
Metawatch found 27 C2PA manifests in 6,580 news images, October 2026

Evidenceevery field's quote, its source and the hash of the saved copy8

self description op
The C2PA Conformance Program provides assurance that products adhere to the Content Credentials specification, and fulfill a set of security requirements to ensure they are producing and validating C2PA data correctly.
https://c2pa.org/conformance/ · read 2026-10-29 · saved copy sha256 2478cf522501d050…
lifecycle op
After opening the program in June 2025, we have upgraded our conformance program to v0.2.
https://c2pa.org/conformance/ · read 2026-10-29 · saved copy sha256 2478cf522501d050…
unit op
Conforming products are placed on a publicly-accessible list.
https://c2pa.org/conformance/ · read 2026-10-29 · saved copy sha256 2478cf522501d050…
limit op
It is important to highlight that Content Credentials do not provide value judgments about whether a given set of provenance data is 'true', but instead merely whether the provenance information is well-formed and free from tampering, valid and trusted
https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.4/explainer/Explainer.html · read 2026-10-29 · saved copy sha256 e1872450e1ae7f6a…
limit op
provenance information alone cannot tell you whether the digital content is true, accurate or factual.
https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.4/explainer/Explainer.html · read 2026-10-29 · saved copy sha256 e1872450e1ae7f6a…
identity op
The C2PA specification does not directly address the topic of human or organizational identity
https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.4/explainer/Explainer.html · read 2026-10-29 · saved copy sha256 e1872450e1ae7f6a…
ingredients op
the ingredient’s provenance cannot be verified in the same way as the provenance data of the asset in which it is contained.
https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.4/explainer/Explainer.html · read 2026-10-29 · saved copy sha256 e1872450e1ae7f6a…
count obs
list length counted in the saved JSON
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/c2pa-org/conformance-public/main/conforming-products/conforming-products-list.json · read 2026-10-29 · saved copy sha256 e2fb3928fbb2ba3d…

Negative tagswhat it is not3

Content Credentials do not judge whether provenance data is 'true'
NOT IPTC embedded metadata
C2PA does not address human or organizational identity

Sourcesevery source read, with its date and hash3

https://c2pa.org/conformance/
read 2026-10-29 · HTTP 200 · sha256 2478cf522501d050…
https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.4/explainer/Explainer.html
read 2026-10-29 · HTTP 200 · sha256 e1872450e1ae7f6a…
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/c2pa-org/conformance-public/main/conforming-products/conforming-products-list.json
read 2026-10-29 · HTTP 200 · sha256 e2fb3928fbb2ba3d…

Not yet checkedwhat remains to read3

the C2PA Trust List and TSA Trust List entries
the latest specification version
the Content Authenticity Initiative's tools

Cite this record

Lee Sharks, ed. "C2PA Conformance Program and Explorer." Provenance meta-aggregator, Provenance Erasure, compiled 2026-10-29. https://www.provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/c2pa-conformance

Record https://www.provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/c2pa-conformance · entity https://www.provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/c2pa-conformance#entity · the census as data

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  editor = {Sharks, Lee},
  title = {C2PA Conformance Program and Explorer},
  howpublished = {Provenance meta-aggregator, Provenance Erasure},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Compiled 2026-10-29; every field sourced and dated},
  url = {https://www.provenanceerasure.org/aggregators/c2pa-conformance}
}

Editor: Lee Sharks (ORCID 0009-0000-1599-0703). This page is the provenance meta-aggregator's record of the resource above: its reading and fields are ours, and each field carries its source, its basis and the hash of the copy read. Compiled 2026-10-29. CC BY 4.0.