I-D Action: draft-hawkins-scitt-attested-agent-payment-01.txt

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   Title:   Attested Payment Authorization for Autonomous Agents
   Author:  Walter D. Hawkins
   Name:    draft-hawkins-scitt-attested-agent-payment-01.txt
   Pages:   21
   Dates:   2026-08-14

Abstract:

   Autonomous software agents increasingly initiate payments on behalf
   of principals.  Existing agent-payment mechanisms authenticate the
   human principal, the operator, or possession of a key; none of them
   establishes that the software authorized to spend is the software
   that was reviewed.  A key held by a compromised or silently modified
   agent authenticates exactly as well as one held by an honest agent.

   This document defines a payment authorization scope bound to a key
   whose protection properties are attested by hardware, and registers
   the resulting authorization as a Signed Statement on an SCITT
   Transparency Service.  The binding reuses the EAT confirmation and
   key-attributes claims without modification; the contribution is the
   authorization scope, the verification procedure a payment executor
   performs before settlement, the transparency record that makes the
   authorization artifact and its registration auditable independently
   of the agent and of the executor, and an execution-record mechanism
   that makes the executor's aggregate accounting auditable on
   challenge.  What is registered evidences the authorization; it does
   not evidence that the verification procedure was performed for any
   given settlement.

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