HandbookADTP-GDE-001

The DTCF Handbook

Companion to the Digital Trust Common Framework 2026.1

How to read DTCF, how to use graded mappings to scope work, and how to explain a deliberate absence to an auditor. Published free with the framework.

Contents

  • §What DTCF is and is not
  • §Objectives, families and editions
  • §Reading a graded mapping
  • §Why an empty cell is a finding about the framework
  • §Scoping with DTCF
  • §Reusing evidence across frameworks
  • §Talking to auditors about coverage
  • §Contributing a correction