@techreport{deforth-arp-00,
    number =    {draft-deforth-arp-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-deforth-arp/00/},
    author =    {Sascha Deforth},
    title =     {{Agentic Reasoning Protocol (ARP): DNS-Bound Cryptographic Verification for Machine-Readable Entity Claims}},
    pagetotal = 22,
    year =      2026,
    month =     apr,
    day =       18,
    abstract =  {This document specifies the Agentic Reasoning Protocol (ARP), a lightweight mechanism for cryptographically binding machine-readable entity claims to domain ownership via DNS TXT records. ARP enables AI agents and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines to verify that structured data published on a domain was authorized by the domain owner, preventing narrative injection and entity spoofing in generative search systems. ARP uses Ed25519 digital signatures {[}RFC8032{]}, JSON Canonicalization Scheme (JCS) {[}RFC8785{]}, and DNS TXT records to establish a chain of trust analogous to DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) {[}RFC6376{]} but designed specifically for the verification of semantic entity data consumed by autonomous AI agents.},
}