I-D Action: draft-hood-aipref-earmark-00.txt

Internet-Draft draft-hood-aipref-earmark-00.txt is now available.

   Title:   Earmark: Embedded Attribution and Rights Marks for AI Usage Preferences
   Author:  Chris Hood
   Name:    draft-hood-aipref-earmark-00.txt
   Pages:   13
   Dates:   2026-08-12

Abstract:

   This document defines Earmark (Embedded Attribution and Rights
   Marks), a mechanism by which publishers and rights holders embed
   signed usage preferences directly into published content.  To earmark
   content is to reserve it for designated uses, and the mark travels
   with what it covers, surviving republication and aggregation, so the
   preference remains discoverable wherever the content arrives,
   including where perimeter signals such as robots.txt no longer apply.
   Marks carry the identity of the rights holder, the preferences
   asserted, and a signature, and are verifiable offline by any party.
   An individual signed statement is a Mark; the mechanism as a whole is
   Earmark.  This document defines the Mark Object, embedding bindings
   for common content types, and the detection and verification
   procedure.  It reuses the AI Preference vocabulary for preference
   semantics and the C2PA and CAWG assertion infrastructure for media,
   defining new machinery only where none exists.  Earmarks make ignored
   preferences observable and attributable.  Enforcement remains with
   law, contract, and the market.

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