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<reference anchor="I-D.fane-ai-safety-txt" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-fane-ai-safety-txt-01">
   <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="22" 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
   authored by the domain rather than user-generated, 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-01" />
   
</reference>
