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<reference anchor="I-D.hood-agtp-merchant-identity" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-hood-agtp-merchant-identity-02">
   <front>
      <title>AGTP Merchant Identity and Agentic Commerce Binding</title>
      <author initials="C." surname="Hood" fullname="Chris Hood">
         <organization>Nomotic, Inc.</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="May" day="25" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   The Agent Transfer Protocol (AGTP) specifies the sending side of an
   agentic transaction: agent identity, Authority-Scope enforcement,
   Budget- Limit declaration, and a signed Attribution-Record on every
   method invocation.  The receiving side of a PURCHASE transaction --
   the merchant or service provider -- has no equivalent protocol-level
   identity or verification mechanism.  This is the merchant identity
   gap.

   This document specifies the AGTP Merchant Identity and Agentic
   Commerce Binding.  It defines a merchant in AGTP as an agent whose
   Agent Identity Document carries role: &quot;merchant&quot;, specifies the
   merchant-specific fields that ride on the Agent Identity Document
   under that declaration, aligns Merchant Trust Tiers with AGTP Trust
   Tier semantics, and defines the protocol integration points at which
   merchant identity is verified.  These include the PURCHASE method
   handshake, the DISCOVER method result surface, and the Attribution-
   Record.  This document also defines the Intent-Assertion header for
   portable, detached principal-authorized intent, the Cart-Digest
   mechanism for multi-line-item transactions, and the 458 Counterparty
   Unverified status code.  Together these mechanisms close the
   verification loop between agent and merchant within AGTP&#x27;s governance
   model.

   Version 02 unifies merchant identity onto the Agent Genesis + Agent
   Identity Document architecture: there is no separate Merchant Genesis
   document type.  A merchant is an agent with role: &quot;merchant&quot; declared
   in its Agent Identity Document.  This reflects the architectural
   principle that identity is permanent (carried on Genesis) and
   capability is mutable (carried on the Identity Document); a role
   change does not re-mint an Agent-ID.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-hood-agtp-merchant-identity-02" />
   
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