I-D Action: draft-reilly-web4-00.txt
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Internet-Draft draft-reilly-web4-00.txt is now available. Title: Web4: A Verifiable, Agent-Native Architecture for the World Wide Web Author: Lawrence J. Reilly Jr. Name: draft-reilly-web4-00.txt Pages: 22 Dates: 2026-08-26 Abstract: The term "Web4" has been used in industry and press coverage without a technical definition, a conformance target, or a testable claim. This document supplies one. It defines Web4 as an architectural profile of the existing Web in which (1) published content carries independently verifiable permanence evidence, (2) the machine channel is a first-class interface rather than an artifact of scraping, (3) autonomous agents operate under recorded, bounded, and revocable authority, and (4) human readers retain disclosed control over agent- curated presentation. Web4 as specified here is not a new network, a new protocol stack, or a replacement for HTTP. It is a composition profile: a set of normative requirements that a deployment either meets or does not, assembled from a family of previously published Internet-Drafts. This document specifies the profile, defines the Web4 Attestation Record (W4AR) that a conforming deployment emits, states the requirements that apply to agentic pipelines operating inside such a deployment, and identifies the running reference implementations against which the profile has been exercised. The profile is assembled from a suite of Internet-Drafts authored by Lawrence J. Reilly Jr. between September 2025 and August 2026, and is first specified as a unified conformance target in this document. The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-reilly-web4/ There is also an HTMLized version available at: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-reilly-web4-00 Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at: rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]