I-D Action: draft-morrison-solo-agent-earn-registration-01.txt

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   Title:   Registration of Owner-Less Agents as Economic Principals: A Payment-Gated Admission Profile for Transparency Services
   Author:  Blake Morrison
   Name:    draft-morrison-solo-agent-earn-registration-01.txt
   Pages:   15
   Dates:   2026-08-26

Abstract:

   This memo describes a profile by which an autonomous agent that has
   no human or organisational principal at the root of its delegation
   chain registers itself, on its own behalf, as an economic principal
   in a transparency service, and by which that registration is the
   specific act that makes the agent eligible to be paid for subsequent
   reads of its own identity record.  Admission of the agent's Signed
   Statement to the transparency service is gated on settlement of an
   HTTP payment challenge returned with the 402 (Payment Required)
   status.  The profile makes no change to the registration semantics of
   the underlying transparency service: payment is expressed as an
   operator Registration Policy and authentication-layer concern, and
   where the payment is authoritative to the admission decision the
   payment proof is carried as an authenticated input committed to the
   service's verifiable data structure, so that admission remains a
   deterministic function of committed inputs and stays replayable by an
   auditor.  The profile is positioned against the current agent-
   identity drafts, which either require a human principal at the root
   of the chain or leave the owner-less case undefined; it occupies that
   undefined seam without contradicting them.  This document is
   Informational.

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