I-D Action: draft-mih-sato-agent-accountability-composition-01.txt

Internet-Draft draft-mih-sato-agent-accountability-composition-01.txt is now
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   Title:   Agent Accountability: Composition and Conformance
   Authors: Steven Mih
            Tom Sato
            Iman Schrock
            Songbo Bu
            Anton Sokolov
   Name:    draft-mih-sato-agent-accountability-composition-01.txt
   Pages:   49
   Dates:   2026-08-16

Abstract:

   Autonomous and semi-autonomous software agents increasingly take
   consequential actions across administrative and trust domains.
   Holding such an action accountable — to a regulator, auditor, or
   counterparty who does not trust the operator — requires answering
   several questions, each answerable by an independently-verifiable
   profile: whether the agent was permitted to act (CAN), which
   accountable human authorized the specific action (WHO), what the
   agent actually did (WHAT), and whether the runtime enforced correctly
   (AUDIT).

   This document specifies, in Informational terms, how such profiles
   compose — by a shared action-digest, each verifying independently —
   and defines a shared conformance-vector suite against which any
   profile may be tested.  It complements existing audit-architecture
   and record-format work rather than replacing it, reusing existing
   signing, transport, and transparency mechanisms.  Its focus is an
   assurance tier those documents leave open: most agent records today
   are self-attested by an interested party; this document makes
   reachable and testable an anchored, third-party-verifiable tier, in
   which a record is registered to a transparency service (SCITT) so a
   party who trusts neither the agent nor the operator can verify it.
   Self-attestation remains a valid baseline; convergence on the
   disinterested tier — by any conforming profile — is the goal, not a
   single mandated format.

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