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<reference anchor="I-D.westerbeck-reason-protocol" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-westerbeck-reason-protocol-00">
   <front>
      <title>reason:// -- A URI Scheme and Registry Protocol for Validated Agent Reasoning Artifacts</title>
      <author initials="J." surname="Westerbeck" fullname="Jacob Westerbeck">
         <organization>Astrognosy AI</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="March" day="30" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This document defines the &quot;reason://&quot; URI scheme and associated
   registry protocol for naming, storing, and retrieving compressed
   structural reasoning artifacts across distributed autonomous agent
   networks.  An artifact enters the registry only by winning a live
   competitive arbitration round scored by the Web Agent Reasoning
   Federation (WARF) protocol.  The artifact schema contains no raw
   data fields; the structural representation is mathematically non-
   invertible (empirical reconstruction rate r = 0.0149).  The
   protocol is designed to function as open infrastructure — analogous
   to DNS for network addresses or HTTP for document retrieval — for
   the agentic internet.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-westerbeck-reason-protocol-00" />
   
</reference>
