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<reference anchor="I-D.fane-ai-safety-txt" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-fane-ai-safety-txt-00">
   <front>
      <title>The ai-safety.txt Domain AI Safety Declaration</title>
      <author initials="A." surname="Fane" fullname="Abdel Fane">
         <organization>OpenA2A</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="July" day="6" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This document defines ai-safety.txt, a plain-text declaration format
   that a domain publishes at a well-known location to communicate its
   AI-safety posture to autonomous agents and agent-driven browsers.
   Modeled on the robots.txt convention, an ai-safety.txt file lets a
   domain assert, in a machine-readable form, whether its content is
   safe for autonomous agent consumption, whether that content is
   hardened against prompt injection, and whether it is rendered
   consistently to human and agent user agents.  The file also carries a
   security contact, a link to an external verification record, and the
   date the declaration was last verified.

   The declarations in an ai-safety.txt file are self-asserted by the
   publishing domain.  This document specifies the file format and its
   well-known location, and it is explicit that a consuming agent treats
   a declaration as a hint rather than as proof, verifying it against
   independent evidence where such evidence is available.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-fane-ai-safety-txt-00" />
   
</reference>
