@techreport{bates-atp-00,
    number =    {draft-bates-atp-00},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bates-atp/00/},
    author =    {David Asher Bates},
    title =     {{Agent Transaction Protocol (ATP)}},
    pagetotal = 65,
    year =      2026,
    month =     may,
    day =       11,
    abstract =  {ATP defines a cryptographically verifiable directed acyclic graph (DAG) model for agent transactions. ATP enables tamper-evident signed causality and auditable lineage across agentic systems by representing each action as a signed node with one or more parent references, assuming verifier access to issuer public keys and the referenced parent nodes. The protocol is designed to be lightweight, transport-independent, and suitable for environments where accountability, provenance, and verifiable history are required.},
}