I-D Action: draft-schrock-ae-challenge-01.txt

Internet-Draft draft-schrock-ae-challenge-01.txt is now available.

   Title:   An Authorization Evidence Challenge for High-Risk Agent Actions
   Author:  Iman Schrock
   Name:    draft-schrock-ae-challenge-01.txt
   Pages:   9
   Dates:   2026-07-28

Abstract:

   The agent-action evidence stack has declaration (a resource declares
   what evidence its actions require), presentation (an AEC presentation
   of signed artifacts), and decision (deterministic policy replay
   yielding a closed verdict).  Nothing closes the loop: when the
   verdict is that evidence is missing or stale, no machine-readable
   message tells the agent what to obtain, how to re-present, or what
   the retry semantics are -- every deployment hand-rolls the dance.
   This document defines the Authorization Evidence Challenge: the
   message a relying party returns before a high-risk action executes,
   naming the exact evidence still required (type, profile constraints,
   freshness bound, revocation-check requirement), how to present it,
   where it might be obtained, and the challenge's own expiry and
   single-use nonce.  The action digest in a challenge is computed by
   the RELYING PARTY over its own canonical action, so evidence is
   obtained against the action that will actually execute.  The exchange
   generalizes OAuth step-up authentication (RFC 9470) from
   authentication to evidence, and completes the circuit: declare,
   attempt, challenge, obtain, present, replay, consume.  A satisfied
   challenge yields a verdict under the relying party's policy, never a
   promise to execute.

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