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<reference anchor="I-D.westerbeck-warf-protocol" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-westerbeck-warf-protocol-00">
   <front>
      <title>Web Agent Reasoning Federation (WARF)</title>
      <author initials="J." surname="Westerbeck" fullname="Jacob Westerbeck">
         <organization>Astrognosy AI</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="April" day="8" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   WARF (Web Agent Reasoning Federation) defines a
   deterministic, identity-free protocol for arbitrating competing
   agent outputs. Three flows -- Xfer, Xact, and Xchange -- provide
   structural signature transfer, identity-free profile matching, and
   open semantic arbitration respectively.

   After Xchange arbitration determines a winner, the Xtend pipeline
   (VASE corpus expansion + Balmathic kappa acceleration detection)
   automatically quality-gates the result. If the caller supplied a
   valid reason:// address and kappa exceeds the promotion threshold,
   the winning artifact is promoted into the reason:// reasoning
   artifact registry at the exact URI provided by the caller.

   The protocol produces auditable, SHA-256 chained verdicts without
   exposing raw data, model weights, or agent identity.


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