I-D Action: draft-das-protocols-candidate-act-finality-00.txt

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   Title:   Stopping AI Hallucinations and Unsafe Acts from Becoming Real-World Consequences (DAS Protocols)
   Author:  Sangam Das
   Name:    draft-das-protocols-candidate-act-finality-00.txt
   Pages:   19
   Dates:   2026-08-27

Abstract:

   The internet has protocols for moving data, securing channels, naming
   hosts, and delegating identity.  It has no protocol for the moment a
   machine-generated instruction becomes a real-world act.  As AI
   systems begin to move money, change databases, reconfigure networks,
   send communications, and control physical systems, that missing
   boundary becomes a structural risk.

   Today an AI can hallucinate a fact, cite a stale source, invent a
   tool argument, or propose an unsafe agentic step — and still reach an
   effectuation interface.  Model approval is not output approval.
   Workflow approval is not consequence approval.  Moderation, access
   control, TEEs, simulation, and post-hoc audit all leave the final
   transition from computation to consequence under-protected.

   This document specifies the DAS Protocols Candidate-Act Finality
   architecture.  Every effect-capable AI output is first converted into
   a non-effective Candidate Act. The Candidate Act stays non-effective
   until a Protected Enforcement Domain has validated output,
   provenance, factual support, consequence, jurisdiction, epoch, and
   sink predicates.  Only then is a scoped non-bearer capability or
   Execution Handle released and verified at a Finality Sink.  In
   advanced forms the Finality Sink is cryptographically unable to
   complete the act unless the handle supplies the missing execution
   material.

   The architecture supports graduated and escalated conditional
   finality so that elevated-risk but necessary acts can still proceed
   under stricter controls.  The document elaborates the problem space,
   compares the approach with representative existing techniques,
   describes the base and advanced finality paths, and provides JSON
   Schema definitions for the core protected objects.  Related Indian
   provisional applications and PCT filings are listed in the final
   appendix.

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