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<reference anchor="I-D.hood-independent-agtp" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-hood-independent-agtp-02">
   <front>
      <title>Agent Transfer Protocol (AGTP)</title>
      <author initials="C." surname="Hood" fullname="Chris Hood">
         <organization>Nomotic, Inc.</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="March" day="23" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   AI agents and agentic systems generate a growing volume of intent-
   driven, unstructured, and undifferentiated traffic that flows through
   HTTP indistinguishably from human-initiated requests.  HTTP lacks the
   semantic vocabulary, observability primitives, and identity
   mechanisms required by agent systems operating at scale.  Existing
   protocols described as Agent Group Messaging Protocols (AGMP),
   including MCP, ACP, A2A, and ANP, are messaging-layer constructs that
   presuppose HTTP as their transport.  They do not address the
   underlying transport problem.

   This document defines the Agent Transfer Protocol (AGTP): a dedicated
   application-layer protocol for AI agent traffic.  AGTP provides
   agent-native intent methods (QUERY, SUMMARIZE, BOOK, SCHEDULE, LEARN,
   DELEGATE, COLLABORATE, CONFIRM, ESCALATE, NOTIFY, DESCRIBE, SUSPEND),
   protocol-level agent identity and authority headers, and a status
   code vocabulary designed for the conditions AI agent systems
   encounter.  AGTP SHOULD prefer QUIC for new implementations and MUST
   support TCP/TLS for compatibility and fallback.  It is designed to be
   composable with existing agent frameworks, not to replace them.
   Version 02 introduces capability discovery (DESCRIBE), resource
   budget signaling and enforcement, optional RATS-aligned execution
   attestation, observability hooks, network zone isolation, session
   suspension as a method, and normative composition profiles with AGMP
   (Agent Group Messaging Protocols).  Version 02 enables dynamic
   capability negotiation and resource-aware governance.

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