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   <front>
      <title>Contextual Agent Authorization Mesh (CAAM)</title>
      <author initials="J. M." surname="Barney" fullname="Jonathan M. Barney">
         <organization>Independent</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="R." surname="Pioli" fullname="Roberto Pioli">
         <organization>Independent</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="D." surname="Watson" fullname="Darron Watson">
         <organization>Independent</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="February" day="25" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This document specifies the Contextual Agent Authorization Mesh
   (CAAM), an authorization profile composable with the Agent
   Registration and Discovery Protocol (ARDP) I-D.pioli-agent-discovery
   and other discovery mechanisms.  CAAM defines the Post-Discovery
   Authorization Handshake: the runtime authorization layer that governs
   agent behavior after an agent has been discovered through ARDP but
   before it is permitted to execute tool calls or delegate authority.

   CAAM provides a sidecar-based authorization mediator for enforcing
   Relationship-Based Access Control (ReBAC), purpose-bound delegation,
   and cryptographically verifiable intent propagation in Human-to-Agent
   (H2A) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) flows.  It bridges identity provenance
   frameworks -- the Interoperability Profiling for Secure Identity in
   the Enterprise (IPSIE) IPSIE and the Secure Production Identity
   Framework for Everyone (SPIFFE) SPIFFE -- with the ARDP control
   plane, leveraging OpenID XAA for coarse-grained delegation, a
   Knowledge Graph for real-time relationship inference, and the Remote
   ATtestation procedureS (RATS) architecture RFC9334 for
   cryptographically verifiable attestation of agent execution
   environments.

   The Session Context Object (SCO) defined herein is encoded as a JSON
   Web Token (JWT) RFC7519 or a CBOR Web Token (CWT) RFC8392, and
   carries a new &quot;ctx&quot; (Contextual Assertion) claim that binds the
   agent&#x27;s delegated authority to a specific purpose, session, and trust
   chain.

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      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-barney-caam-00" />
   
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