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<reference anchor="I-D.mih-agent-bilateral-attestation" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-mih-agent-bilateral-attestation-03">
   <front>
      <title>Bilateral Attestation of Cross-Organization Agent Actions</title>
      <author initials="S." surname="Mih" fullname="Steven Mih">
         <organization>Action State Group, Inc.</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="October" day="28" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   When an agent operated by one organization requests a consequential
   action from an agent operated by another, today&#x27;s record of that
   exchange — if one exists — is kept by one side, editable by that
   side, and deniable by the other.  Disputes reduce to my-log-versus-
   your-log.  This document describes a bilateral attestation exchange
   for such actions: the requesting organization signs a request
   attestation binding it to the action and its material terms; the
   performing organization evaluates the request against deterministic
   constraints at the boundary where the action takes effect and signs
   an action attestation recording the constraint results and the
   disposition — performed, declined, or escalated to a human — by
   reference to the request; and each party acknowledges the other&#x27;s
   attestation.  The combined record binds each organization to its
   part, gives each proof of the other&#x27;s, and can be registered with a
   Transparency Service so that a third party who trusts neither
   organization can verify the record end-to-end.  The exchange records
   refusals with the same fidelity as performance, and degrades
   gracefully when a counterparty cannot attest, marking the record&#x27;s
   reduced assurance rather than blocking the transaction.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-mih-agent-bilateral-attestation-03" />
   
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