HIOP Standards & Accreditation Path

Reference	How it fits the HIOP program
ISO/IEC 17065:2012	Current published conformity-assessment requirements for bodies certifying products, processes and services. A new edition is in final-draft development in 2026.
ISO/IEC 17025:2017	Competence, impartiality and consistent operation of testing/calibration laboratories; relevant if HIOP conformance tests are performed by independent labs.
ISO/IEC 17021-1:2015	Requirements for third-party management-system certification bodies; relevant to organization-level agent governance certification.
ISO/IEC 42001:2023	AI management-system requirements; useful as a crosswalk for the company-level HIOP Agent Governance profile.
NIST AI RMF	Voluntary AI risk-management framework and supporting TEVV resources. HIOP can map authority/effect controls into the broader Govern, Map, Measure and Manage lifecycle.
OWASP Excessive Agency	Useful threat/control crosswalk for functionality, permissions and autonomy that can lead to damaging agent actions.

Important mark-design issue

A U.S. certification mark is not just a normal product logo. The certification-mark owner controls use of the mark by other parties that meet the published standard. That means Hood should have trademark counsel design the mark ownership, scheme governance and separation between Hood's product business and the body that makes certification decisions before filing or licensing a formal certification mark.

Recommended structure: Hood Intelligence owns/develops the HIOP technology and standard. Certification decisions are made through an impartial certification function or independent certification-body partner. Consulting/integration staff do not make the final certification decision on their own work.

What Hood can say during the build phase

Allowed: “HIOP Agent Control Conformance Profile — Draft”
Evaluation language: use “Conformance evaluation” or “tested against the draft HIOP profile” only when the evaluated scope and evidence are clearly identified.
Allowed: “Certification program in development.”
Do not say yet: “HIOP Certified,” “accredited,” “independently certified,” or “ISO certified” unless the actual program and external basis support the claim.