@techreport{mccormack-ztip-00,
    number =    {draft-mccormack-ztip-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-mccormack-ztip/00/},
    author =    {Chad Ronald McCormack},
    title =     {{The Zero Trust Intelligence Protocol (ZTIP): Governed, Independently Verified AI Agent Transactions}},
    pagetotal = 8,
    year =      2026,
    month =     aug,
    day =       3,
    abstract =  {The Zero Trust Intelligence Protocol (ZTIP) is an open, transport- neutral protocol for governed AI agent transactions. It defines five immutable JSON envelope types and a transaction lifecycle under which every agent-initiated action is authorized by policy before execution, integrity-protected by hash over a canonical form, and -- distinctively -- verified as complete by an authority independent of the actor that performed the work. An executor's claim of success is treated as attestation, and attestation alone never satisfies a required verification check. This document describes ZTIP version 1.0-draft for the record; the full specification, JSON Schemas, examples, and a reference runtime are maintained in the open at the repository referenced herein.},
}