%% You should probably cite draft-condrey-rats-pop-01 instead of this revision.
@techreport{condrey-rats-pop-00,
    number =    {draft-condrey-rats-pop-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-condrey-rats-pop/00/},
    author =    {David Lee Condrey},
    title =     {{Proof of Process: An Evidence Framework for Digital Authorship Attestation}},
    pagetotal = 162,
    year =      2026,
    month =     feb,
    day =       7,
    abstract =  {This document specifies Proof of Process (PoP), an evidence framework for digital authorship attestation. The framework produces tamper- evident, independently verifiable process evidence describing how documents evolve over time, without capturing document content or keystroke data. Proof of Process implements a specialized profile of the Remote ATtestation procedureS (RATS) architecture, extending it with behavioral entropy bindings, Verifiable Delay Function (VDF) temporal proofs, and a taxonomy of absence claims with explicit trust requirements. The specification defines two complementary CBOR- encoded formats: Evidence Packets (.pop) produced by Attesters during document authorship, and Attestation Results (.war) produced by Verifiers after appraising Evidence. The framework is designed around four core principles: privacy by construction (no content storage), zero trust (locally generated, independently verifiable), evidence over inference (observable facts, not conclusions), and cost-asymmetric forgery (expensive to fake, not impossible). This specification does not address AI detection, stylometric analysis, or intent inference.},
}