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<reference anchor="I-D.rampertab-audit-agent-authority-history" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-rampertab-audit-agent-authority-history-00">
   <front>
      <title>Replayable Authority Histories for Auditing Automated Agents</title>
      <author initials="R." surname="Rampertab" fullname="Ramesh Rampertab">
         <organization>RAmEx Labs</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="October" day="29" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   Software agents act on authority that changes while they run:
   permissions are granted and revoked, running instances are replaced,
   and some requests are refused.  Activity logs record what a system
   reports it did, but they do not by themselves show what an agent was
   allowed to do when it acted, and the operator can edit them.  This
   document specifies a model for an authority history: an append-only,
   signed record of who granted what to whom, which actions were
   admitted, which requests were refused, and which unfinished duties
   survive when one agent replaces another.  Given independently
   authenticated owner keys and history identity, a verifier can replay
   the history and recompute its recorded authorization decisions while
   trusting neither the agent nor the operator.  The document states
   what such a verifier can and cannot establish.  Optional profiles
   cover external anchoring, federated operation, human-attested keys
   and zero-knowledge disclosure.  An informative appendix describes one
   encoding.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-rampertab-audit-agent-authority-history-00" />
   
</reference>
