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<reference anchor="I-D.reilly-webproof" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-reilly-webproof-01">
   <front>
      <title>WebProof: A Dual-Layer Web Provenance Protocol for Verifiable Digital Truth on the Internet</title>
      <author initials="L. J. R." surname="Reilly" fullname="Lawrence John Reilly Jr">
         <organization>Independent</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="September" day="5" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This document defines WebProof, a new protocol layer for the World
   Wide Web that enables any web resource, document, dataset, media
   artifact, or AI-generated output to be cryptographically proven to
   exist in a specific form, at a specific time, under a specific
   author&#x27;s custody.

   The web currently provides transport security (TLS), naming (DNS),
   and resource identification (URI/URL), but no native mechanism for
   verifiable provenance.  Any web resource can be silently modified,
   backdated, or repudiated.  WebProof fills this gap by defining a
   dual-anchored provenance layer that combines DOI-based archival
   permanence with blockchain timestamping to produce a WebProof Record
   (WPR): a machine-readable, independently verifiable proof of a
   resource&#x27;s existence, integrity, authorship, and timestamp.

   WebProof introduces a well-known URI (/.well-known/webproof) for
   resource-level proof publication, HTTP response header extensions
   for inline provenance signaling, a canonical WebProof Record schema,
   a generation and verification procedure, and a DNS TXT record
   profile for domain-level WebProof registration.

   WebProof is designed to compose with existing web infrastructure and
   is intentionally non-disruptive: it does not require modifications
   to HTTP, TLS, or DNS to function, operating as an opt-in provenance
   layer that any web publisher can adopt independently.  The protocol
   builds on the Dual-Layer Digital Permanence methodology introduced
   by Lawrence John Reilly Jr. in the Reilly EternaMark (REM) Protocol
   [I-D.draft-reilly-rem-protocol].

   The term &quot;WebProof&quot; is coined by Lawrence John Reilly Jr. and first
   formally defined in this document.

   This revision adds material to draft-reilly-webproof-00 without
   removing or altering any text carried forward from it.  The
   additions are summarized in Section 18.

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      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-reilly-webproof-01" />
   
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