I-D Action: draft-morrison-identity-accord-03.txt

Internet-Draft draft-morrison-identity-accord-03.txt is now available.

   Title:   Identity Accord Protocol: A Peer Ceremony for Bilateral Agreements Between Identity-Substrate-Bound Principals
   Authors: Blake Morrison
            Christopher Whiteside
   Name:    draft-morrison-identity-accord-03.txt
   Pages:   26
   Dates:   2026-08-31

Abstract:

   This memo specifies the Identity Accord Protocol, a peer ceremony by
   which two principals, each represented by an organisational identity
   substrate and acting under a recorded delegation from a legal entity,
   execute a bilateral agreement as a portable, self-verifying COSE-
   signed CBOR document.  The protocol composes DNS-based substrate
   discovery, Ed25519 sovereign signatures, an append-only identity log,
   and a tamper-evidence descriptor quorum into a single artefact that
   is verifiable by any third party with access to the public DNS, the
   parties' identity logs, and an on-chain anchor of the agreement's
   content hash.  The protocol does not require a central registry, a
   designated verifier, or any infrastructure operated by the
   specification's author; verification succeeds when the author's
   reference deployment is offline.  The canonical bilateral target is a
   mutual non-disclosure agreement, but the wire format generalises to
   any bilateral consent envelope between two legal entities each
   represented by an identity substrate.  An associated MCP tool
   surface, an associated pre-send enforcement gate, and an associated
   disclosure-ledger schema are specified, all of which are optional
   layers above the wire format.  The memo is Informational; the
   underlying COSE and CBOR formats are normative per [RFC9052] and
   [RFC8949].

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