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<reference anchor="I-D.dhir-http-agent-profile" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-dhir-http-agent-profile-00">
   <front>
      <title>HTTP Agent Profile (HAP): Authenticated and Monetized Agent Traffic on the Web</title>
      <author initials="S." surname="Dhir" fullname="Sanat Dhir">
         <organization>Independent</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="November" day="24" year="2025" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   Autonomous agents such as LLM-powered crawlers, browser-integrated
   assistants, and task-oriented bots are rapidly becoming first-class
   HTTP clients on the Web. Today’s infrastructure largely assumes a
   human behind a browser and monetizes content through advertising and
   coarse subscriptions.  Automated agents consume content at scale
   without rendering pages or viewing ads, exacerbating bot-mitigation
   arms races and economic misalignment between content providers and AI
   systems.

   This document describes an HTTP Agent Profile (HAP) that enables: (1)
   cryptographic authentication of agent traffic using HTTP Message
   Signatures; (2) clear separation between human and agent traffic
   using privacy-preserving human tokens; and (3) protocol-level value
   exchange for agents via HTTP status code 402 (&quot;Payment Required&quot;) and
   pluggable micropayment mechanisms.  The profile reuses existing HTTP
   features and is designed for incremental deployment via reverse
   proxies, CDNs, and agent libraries.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-dhir-http-agent-profile-00" />
   
</reference>
