@techreport{ietf-rats-epoch-markers-05,
    number =    {draft-ietf-rats-epoch-markers-05},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rats-epoch-markers/05/},
    author =    {Henk Birkholz and Thomas Fossati and Wei Pan and Ionuț Mihalcea and Carsten Bormann},
    title =     {{Epoch Markers}},
    pagetotal = 26,
    year =      2026,
    month =     jul,
    day =       3,
    abstract =  {This document defines Epoch Markers as a means to establish a notion of freshness among actors in a distributed system. Epoch Markers are similar to "time ticks" and are produced and distributed by a dedicated system known as the Epoch Bell. Systems receiving Epoch Markers do not need to track freshness using their own understanding of time (e.g., via a local real-time clock). Instead, the reception of a specific Epoch Marker establishes a new epoch that is shared among all recipients. This document defines Epoch Marker types, including CBOR time tags, RFC 3161 TimeStampToken, and nonce-like structures. It also defines a CWT Claim to embed Epoch Markers in RFC 8392 CBOR Web Tokens, which serve as vehicles for signed protocol messages.},
}