@techreport{morrison-live-reference-resolution-00,
    number =    {draft-morrison-live-reference-resolution-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-morrison-live-reference-resolution/00/},
    author =    {Blake Morrison},
    title =     {{Live Reference Resolution for Autonomous Agent Beliefs}},
    pagetotal = 8,
    year =      2026,
    month =     jul,
    day =       5,
    abstract =  {A recurring class of autonomous-agent failure arises when an agent acts on a belief read from a cached, derived, or proxy copy that has silently diverged from the authority the belief claims to represent. This document describes a reference-resolution discipline for the working beliefs an agent reasons and acts from. Each belief is held as a reference to a single named lowest authority and is resolved live at the point of use, with verification. When the authority is unobservable or the resolved value is stale, the belief takes an explicit uncertainty state rather than a prior cached value; that state propagates to any belief derived from it, and an uncertain belief feeding a costly or irreversible act blocks or escalates rather than proceeding. Every resolution chain terminates in a single self-authorising root. The document is Informational. It records a discipline and a vocabulary; it does not define a wire protocol.},
}