I-D Action: draft-sabey-succession-receipts-02.txt

Internet-Draft draft-sabey-succession-receipts-02.txt is now available.

   Title:   Succession Receipts: Portable Signed Evidence of Authority Succession Between Autonomous Agents
   Author:  Jaryn Mervin Sabey
   Name:    draft-sabey-succession-receipts-02.txt
   Pages:   14
   Dates:   2026-07-21

Abstract:

   Autonomous agents are upgraded, replaced, suspended, and restored
   while holding real operational authority.  A Succession Receipt is a
   portable, signed JSON document that proves one completed, policy-
   gated transfer of authority between two agents: which agent held the
   authority, which agent holds it now, under what legitimacy
   determination the transfer ran, and which obligations carried
   forward, with every claim grounded in signed evidence events embedded
   in the receipt itself.  Receipts are verifiable offline by parties
   who do not operate the issuing system, using only the issuer's public
   key.  This document specifies the receipt wire format, its
   canonicalization and signature scheme (JSON Canonicalization Scheme
   with Ed25519), the verification algorithm including bidirectional
   claim grounding, and an optional claim that binds a pre-execution
   authorization of the handoff to the succession evidence.  Where
   decision receipts prove what an agent did, and delegation receipts
   prove what an agent may do, Succession Receipts prove that an agent
   legitimately became the holder of an authority.

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