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<reference anchor="I-D.pidlisnyi-aps" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-pidlisnyi-aps-04">
   <front>
      <title>Agent Passport System (APS): Verifiable Authority, Lifecycle, Enforcement, and Evidence for AI Agents</title>
      <author initials="T." surname="Pidlisnyi" fullname="Tymofii Pidlisnyi">
         <organization>Agent Passport System</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="September" day="28" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This document specifies the Agent Passport System (APS), a protocol
   for representing and evaluating authority exercised by AI agents.
   APS separates agent identity, represented principal, delegated
   authority, policy approval, admission to dispatch, observed results,
   and external effects.  It defines cryptographic identity and
   principal records, monotonic delegation, revocation and authority-
   lifecycle semantics, deterministic action and decision references,
   signed governed-action records, verifier outcomes, evidence
   resolution, profiles, and protocol bindings.

   APS defines how an enforcement boundary rechecks current authority
   before admitting an action to dispatch, and how a verifier
   distinguishes what a signed record establishes from claims that
   remain unresolved or external to the protocol.  Requirements are
   split into APS Core, which every conforming implementation carries,
   and Candidate features, which an implementation opts into by naming
   them in its claim, and most of the lifecycle and decision-to-effect
   material in this document is Candidate rather than Core.  Candidate
   features specify additional lifecycle and decision-to-effect behavior
   without making those features requirements of APS Core conformance.

   Implementation and conformance sections identify which requirements
   have exact conformance-vector coverage and which are implemented by
   the reference implementations.  APS does not treat a valid signature,
   receipt, or delegation chain as proof of external truth or of the
   absence of an out-of-band execution path.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-pidlisnyi-aps-04" />
   
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