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<reference anchor="I-D.condrey-rats-pop" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-condrey-rats-pop-00">
   <front>
      <title>Proof of Process: An Evidence Framework for Digital Authorship Attestation</title>
      <author initials="D. L." surname="Condrey" fullname="David Lee Condrey">
         <organization>Writerslogic Inc</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="February" day="6" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This document specifies Proof of Process (PoP), an evidence framework
   for digital authorship attestation.  The framework produces tamper-
   evident, independently verifiable process evidence describing how
   documents evolve over time, without capturing document content or
   keystroke data.

   Proof of Process implements a specialized profile of the Remote
   ATtestation procedureS (RATS) architecture, extending it with
   behavioral entropy bindings, Verifiable Delay Function (VDF) temporal
   proofs, and a taxonomy of absence claims with explicit trust
   requirements.  The specification defines two complementary CBOR-
   encoded formats: Evidence Packets (.pop) produced by Attesters during
   document authorship, and Attestation Results (.war) produced by
   Verifiers after appraising Evidence.

   The framework is designed around four core principles: privacy by
   construction (no content storage), zero trust (locally generated,
   independently verifiable), evidence over inference (observable facts,
   not conclusions), and cost-asymmetric forgery (expensive to fake, not
   impossible).  This specification does not address AI detection,
   stylometric analysis, or intent inference.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-condrey-rats-pop-00" />
   
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