{
  "profile": "AEP-003 canonical JSON profile v1.1",
  "steps": [
    "parse JSON as UTF-8",
    "remove signature field",
    "set hash to sha256:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000",
    "sort object keys recursively",
    "encode without insignificant whitespace using separators comma and colon",
    "compute SHA-256",
    "store as sha256:<hex>"
  ]
}