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<reference anchor="I-D.miller-aeo" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-miller-aeo-00">
   <front>
      <title>The AEO1 Discovery Mechanism: A DNS-Anchored, Signed Pointer to Owner-Attested Fact Catalogs for AI Answer Engines</title>
      <author initials="G." surname="Miller" fullname="Garrett Miller">
         <organization>Meadow Mountain AI LLC</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="July" day="18" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This document specifies AEO1 (Answer Engine Optimization, version 1),
   a discovery mechanism that allows a domain owner to publish a
   verifiable, machine-readable pointer to a structured, owner-attested
   fact catalog for that domain.  AEO1 consists of three coordinated
   surfaces: a DNS TXT record at the &quot;_aeo&quot; subdomain, a JSON document
   at the well-known URI &quot;/.well-known/aeo.json&quot;, and an optional HTML
   link hint.  Records may carry an Ed25519 signature issued by an
   issuing authority, enabling consuming agents such as AI answer
   engines to distinguish verified, current, domain-authorized data from
   unverified crawled content.  The design follows the DNS-authenticated
   trust-anchor pattern established by SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.  This
   document also requests provisional registration of the &quot;aeo.json&quot;
   well-known URI suffix.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-miller-aeo-00" />
   
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