Meret Association for Trusted Digital Systems
An independent body that confers Fellowship and Professional Membership on the basis of evidence and peer judgment - and lets anyone verify a credential in seconds.
Two forms of recognition: open Professional Membership, and Fellowship by peer nomination.
Confirm a Fellow or Member credential
Public, evidence-backed, and built for third-party scrutiny.
Earned through evidence and peer judgment
Nomination & eligibility
Peers nominate candidates. Fellowship cannot be self-applied; Professional Membership is open by application.
Evidence & expert review
Independent Expert Reviewers assess the record against the indicator framework (Groups A, B, and C).
Committee decision & public record
The Fellowship votes; every conferral becomes a credential anyone holding its number can verify.
Apply directly
An open, application-based tier for established practitioners - a three-step path with administrative review.
Eligibility & how to applyNomination only
The Association's highest recognition, conferred through a rigorous seven-stage peer process. You cannot self-apply.
The Fellowship standardBuilt on sixty years of interactive computing
The Association inherits a lineage of interactive computing built for the highest-stakes work there is - systems trusted because the evidence said so, not because of who built them. That standard traces to 1973, when founder John Greist and colleagues at the University of Wisconsin engineered one of the earliest procedurally-invariant interactive computer systems - the same Wisconsin work that ran directly into Epic Systems.
An invitation-only body, now open to the field
For its first nine years the Association operated by invitation - no public application route, no public-facing structure. Candidates were nominated by serving Fellows, the record of each election stayed inside the Association, and members used their standing where it counted for them, in hiring and promotion review at major technology employers.
In January 2026 one thing opened: Professional Membership is now open to direct application, and verification moved online so anyone holding a credential number can confirm it without contacting us. Fellowship did not open - it remains by nomination from serving Fellows, capped at 25 elections a year.
Recognition is earned through evidence and the judgment of peers.
Founded with the support of Meret Solutions. Governed independently.