I-D Action: draft-ruvalcaba-nhe-arch-00.txt

Internet-Draft draft-ruvalcaba-nhe-arch-00.txt is now available.

   Title:   An Architecture for Non-Human Entities (NHE): A Reference Model for Persistent, Identity-Bearing Autonomous Agents
   Author:  Cristian Xavier Ruvalcaba
   Name:    draft-ruvalcaba-nhe-arch-00.txt
   Pages:   10
   Dates:   2026-08-13

Abstract:

   This document defines a reference architecture for a Non-Human Entity
   (NHE): a persistent, identity-bearing autonomous software agent that
   maintains continuity of memory and identity across sessions and
   hosts, acts under bounded authority, and produces a tamper-evident
   record of its reasoning and actions.  The document specifies the NHE
   as a functional artifact: a bounded, inspectable, and terminable
   software system.  It makes no claim that an NHE is alive, sentient,
   or a moral or legal person, and such claims are explicitly out of
   scope.

   The architecture decomposes an NHE into a small set of components
   joined by well-defined interfaces.  Each interface at which two
   independent implementations must interoperate is a candidate for a
   separate Standards-Track specification; this document is the
   informational reference model that names those interfaces and the
   trust relationships among them.  It is intended to frame a suite of
   companion protocol documents, of which the Hash-Chain Context
   Transfer Protocol (HCTP) is the first.

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