I-D Action: draft-ackerman-temporal-integrity-metadata-01.txt

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   Title:   Temporal Integrity Metadata (TIM) for Infrastructure Telemetry
   Author:  William "Trey" Ackerman
   Name:    draft-ackerman-temporal-integrity-metadata-01.txt
   Pages:   42
   Dates:   2026-08-10

Abstract:

   Distributed computing systems generate timestamped events from
   components whose clocks operate under fundamentally different
   synchronization conditions.  Existing logging and observability
   standards -- including legacy BSD syslog (RFC 3164), RFC 5424,
   SNMP, NETCONF, and OpenTelemetry -- define message formats and
   telemetry schemas but provide no standard mechanism for an event
   source to declare the provenance, confidence, or synchronization
   state of its timestamps.  Every platform that must correlate events
   across components independently invents a proprietary temporal
   reconciliation layer.  These systems fail silently, cannot be
   validated against a published standard, and are not interoperable.

   This document defines Temporal Integrity Metadata (TIM): a transport-
   agnostic structure that any event-emitting system may attach to its
   telemetry to declare how its timestamp was generated, the
   synchronization state of its clock, a bounded uncertainty interval,
   the temporal reference domain, and a monotonic sequence token for
   ordering events when wall-clock time is unavailable.  TIM is
   backward-compatible with existing protocols, implementable on
   constrained embedded hardware, and applicable from internet-scale
   distributed services to air-gapped and orbital deployments.

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