open-standards/wai/extensions/haptics.md
Transaction Science cd6dcf41bb SPEC §7 Signatures: the one Ed25519 rule, cited by the receipt extensions
Every Ed25519 signature WAI defines is verified strictly, in order: a canonical
key, a key not of small order, S < L, R not of small order, and the cofactorless
equation with R compared byte for byte. OER/2's chain signature keeps the rule
oer-receipts §5 settles. jwp-receipts §3.1 step 3, http-delivery's playlist
receipt and packaging's receipt cite it instead of restating it; the worlds,
avatars, feeds, spatial-audio, haptics, volumetric, score, film, provenance,
ternary and quantum receipt texts cite it where they name their signature.
CHANGELOG records the sweep.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
2026-10-07 14:39:04 -04:00

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# WAI Extension: Haptics
> Status: Draft. Phase 2 of the cargo roadmap. Touch as instructions:
> ship a keyframed intensity/sharpness envelope, the sink reconstructs an
> actuator signal. Conformance is **sample-equivalence**. Reference impl:
> the `haptic` feature of `wai-rs`; corpus: `haptic-conformance/`; live
> sink: wai.transaction.science/haptics.
Keywords **MUST**, **MUST NOT**, **SHOULD**, **MAY** are RFC 2119/8174.
## 1. Scope and model
A `wai.haptic.signal` object is a per-channel keyframed envelope of
**intensity** and **sharpness** (the Core-Haptics-shaped pair every
modern actuator API maps to) that the sink reconstructs to a per-sample
buffer and plays on whatever actuators it has. It is lever 3
(instructions-at-the-sink) for touch — an effect is a few hundred bytes,
not a recorded waveform.
In scope: the container, the deterministic reconstruct contract, the
**sample-equivalence** conformance criterion, the fallback floor, the
receipt profile.
Out of scope: a transport; actuator hardware specifics (the
channel→actuator binding is the sink's); carrier synthesis (the signal
is an amplitude/sharpness envelope, not a modulated waveform — the
deterministic floor stays trig-free).
Relationship to the core spec: mirrors interactive-worlds / spatial
audio. The reconstruct runs in the `wai.det.fixed64` floor; `media`
takes the informational value `"haptic"`; `wai.haptic.signal` is
authoritative.
## 2. Container (`WHAP`)
```
"WHAP" | u16 n_sections | section table (u8 kind, u32 off, u32 len) | sections
```
| kind | section | required |
|---|---|---|
| `0x01` | contract (canonical JSON) | REQUIRED |
| `0x02` | channel signals | REQUIRED |
### 2.1 Contract
```json
{ "sample_rate": 1000, "numeric": "wai.det.fixed64",
"channels": 1, "duration": 1500 }
```
Haptic rates are low (≈1 kHz); `duration` is in samples.
### 2.2 Channel signals
`n_channels u32`, then per channel: `n_keys u16`, then
`n × ( pos_sample u64 | intensity i64 Fx | sharpness i64 Fx )`.
Both fields are in `[0, 1]`. Between keyframes they linear-interpolate
in `Fx`; before the first / after the last key they hold.
## 3. Reconstruct contract
For each channel, for each sample `t ∈ [0, duration)`:
`intensity(t)`, `sharpness(t)` = the `Fx` linear interpolation of the
channel's keyframes at `t`, each clamped to `[0,1]` and quantized to a
`u8` (`round(v · 255)`, half away from zero, in integer space). The
canonical reconstruction is, per channel, the interleaved
`[intensity, sharpness]` `u8` pairs.
## 4. Conformance — sample-equivalence
> Given the same `wai.haptic.signal`, a conforming sink MUST reconstruct
> the identical canonical `u8` buffer, hence the identical BLAKE3 — on
> every machine, no tolerance parameter.
```
signal_hash = BLAKE3("wai:haptic-signal\x01" || per-channel u8 pairs)
```
## 5. Fallback floor
A sink with no actuators ignores the signal (haptics are
supplementary); there is no perceptual substitute to fall back *to*, so
`fallback` is typically `null`. A sink MAY surface the envelope visually
(a waveform) — presentation, not conformance.
## 6. Receipt (JWP profile)
`signal_hash` is the identity; the group's objects are per-channel
reconstruction blocks, Merkle-bound; one Ed25519 signature (verified as
SPEC §7 *Signatures* requires) over signal_hash + root + `work` (= duration × channels) + carried
`joules_micro`; `parent_receipt_hash` chains — the worlds/audio receipt
shape reused. The figure's acquisition class rides beside it as an optional signed label
([energy-measurement](energy-measurement.md) §2.8): absent, the receipt keeps
its legacy bytes and the figure is unlabelled; present, it is inside the
signature. The reference meter labels every figure it measures
`OnChipCounter`, with its declared uncertainty.
## Appendix
Sample-equivalence is replay/mixdown-equivalence with the tick replaced
by the haptic sample. The envelope is trig-free by construction
(amplitude + sharpness, not a modulated carrier), so the `Fx` floor
reconstructs it exactly with `+,−,×,÷` alone — the simplest cargo class
to make bit-exact, which is why it's the fast Phase-2 win.