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   Title:   AgentEnvelope: Derived Authority and Legitimacy for Autonomous Systems
   Author:  Matthew McPhillips
   Name:    draft-mcphillips-agentenvelope-derived-authority-01.txt
   Pages:   24
   Dates:   2026-08-31

Abstract:

   AgentEnvelope defines a deterministic derived-authority model for
   autonomous and action-performing systems.  Instead of issuing bearer
   credentials from a central authority, AgentEnvelope derives scoped
   action capabilities from customer-held custody material and canonical
   action envelopes.  A verifier can check an action signature against a
   public action record without receiving roots, seeds, private keys,
   mint material, or hosted service access.

   This revision extends the model with legitimacy: a governance state
   that records whether a cryptographically valid authority remains
   admissible under current policy, evidence, time, and operating
   context.  Legitimacy separates provenance from present-tense
   authorization.  A command can remain signed and verifiable while
   becoming illegitimate because operating facts, policy, or evidence
   changed.

   For autonomous-system deployments, derived authority and legitimacy
   support an IAM model concerned with authority, admissibility,
   accountability, and audit for actors that perform actions, including
   AI agents, workflows, bots, microservices, devices, robots,
   serverless workers, and multi-agent systems.

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