I-D Action: draft-zagarella-verified-human-root-01.txt

Internet-Draft draft-zagarella-verified-human-root-01.txt is now available.

   Title:   Verified Human Root Attestation for Agent Delegation Chains and Audit Records
   Author:  Roberto Antonio Zagarella
   Name:    draft-zagarella-verified-human-root-01.txt
   Pages:   11
   Dates:   2026-08-23

Abstract:

   Autonomous software agents increasingly act under delegated
   authority, and emerging audit-record data models capture what an
   agent did, under which delegation, with which authorization state.
   In current practice the head of every such chain, and the identity
   axis of every such record, is a key, an account, or a workload
   identity.  No standardized element establishes that an identified
   natural person, verified as live and present, stands at the head of
   the chain or behind the recorded action.

   This document defines the Verified Human Root Attestation (VHRA): a
   compact, privacy-preserving data structure asserting that a biometric
   proof-of-human verification of an identified natural person (or an
   M-of-N quorum of such persons) occurred at a specific issuance event.
   It further defines how a delegation chain binds a VHRA at its root
   such that the binding survives attenuation, and how audit and
   interaction records reference a VHRA so that any recorded agent
   action can be resolved to an accountable natural person without the
   verifier receiving any biometric material.

   This document is offered as input to the proposed AUDIT working
   group's data model work.  It deliberately does not standardize
   biometric verification methods; it standardizes only the attestation
   structure, its bindings, and verifier obligations.

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