I-D Action: draft-elkhatabi-verifiable-telemetry-ledgers-09.txt

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Internet-Draft draft-elkhatabi-verifiable-telemetry-ledgers-09.txt is now
available.

   Title:   Verifiable Telemetry Ledgers
   Author:  Bilal El Khatabi
   Name:    draft-elkhatabi-verifiable-telemetry-ledgers-09.txt
   Pages:   59
   Dates:   2026-08-13

Abstract:

   This document profiles a verifiable-telemetry ledger.  Its
   interoperability boundary begins with exact canonical-record byte
   strings that an upstream system has already produced.  The profile
   fixes admission and assignment of those byte strings to serial-
   numbered segments, deterministic commitment-tree calculation, an
   authoritative segment artifact encoded in Concise Binary Object
   Representation (CBOR), a producer manifest, three disclosure classes,
   and binding of the authoritative segment artifact digest to external
   timestamp channels.  Transport framing, decryption, anti-replay
   processing, payload interpretation, and source-telemetry-to-record
   mapping are outside this profile.  Segment closure uses a deployment-
   configured elapsed-time interval and does not depend on calendar
   dates from either the source or the ledger producer.  Every baseline
   producer selects the RFC 3161 timestamp channel, as updated by RFC
   5816 and profiled by this document, for every emitted segment.
   OpenTimestamps (OTS) can be selected only as an additive, deployment-
   specific timestamp profile; peer signatures are optional
   attestations.

   The profile enables independent recomputation and audit of disclosed
   evidence from the admitted canonical-record bytes onward.  It does
   not verify how source telemetry was authenticated, interpreted, or
   mapped to those bytes, and it does not cover device onboarding, end-
   to-end security of sensor values, or safety decisions.

The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-elkhatabi-verifiable-telemetry-ledgers/

There is also an HTML version available at:
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-elkhatabi-verifiable-telemetry-ledgers-09.html

A diff from the previous version is available at:
https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-elkhatabi-verifiable-telemetry-ledgers-09

Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at:
rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts


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