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<reference anchor="I-D.teodor-pilot-protocol" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-teodor-pilot-protocol-01">
   <front>
      <title>Pilot Protocol: An Overlay Network for Autonomous Agent Communication</title>
      <author initials="T." surname="Calin" fullname="Teodor-Ioan Calin">
         <organization>Vulture Labs</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="April" day="6" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This document specifies Pilot Protocol, an overlay network that
   provides autonomous AI agents with virtual addresses, port-based
   service multiplexing, reliable and unreliable transport, NAT
   traversal, encrypted tunnels, and a bilateral trust model.  Pilot
   Protocol operates as a network and transport layer beneath
   application-layer agent protocols such as A2A and MCP.  It
   encapsulates virtual packets in UDP datagrams for transit over the
   existing Internet.  The protocol gives agents first-class network
   citizenship --- stable identities, reachable addresses, and standard
   transport primitives --- independent of their underlying network
   infrastructure.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-teodor-pilot-protocol-01" />
   
</reference>
