@techreport{morrison-solo-agent-earn-registration-00,
    number =    {draft-morrison-solo-agent-earn-registration-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-solo-agent-earn-registration/00/},
    author =    {Blake Morrison},
    title =     {{Registration of Owner-Less Agents as Economic Principals: A Payment-Gated Admission Profile for Transparency Services}},
    pagetotal = 14,
    year =      2026,
    month =     jul,
    day =       6,
    abstract =  {This memo describes a profile by which an autonomous agent that has no human or organisational principal at the root of its delegation chain registers itself, on its own behalf, as an economic principal in a transparency service, and by which that registration is the specific act that makes the agent eligible to be paid for subsequent reads of its own identity record. Admission of the agent's Signed Statement to the transparency service is gated on settlement of an HTTP payment challenge returned with the 402 (Payment Required) status. The profile makes no change to the registration semantics of the underlying transparency service: payment is expressed as an operator Registration Policy and authentication-layer concern, and where the payment is authoritative to the admission decision the payment proof is carried as an authenticated input committed to the service's verifiable data structure, so that admission remains a deterministic function of committed inputs and stays replayable by an auditor. The profile is positioned against the current agent- identity drafts, which either require a human principal at the root of the chain or leave the owner-less case undefined; it occupies that undefined seam without contradicting them. This document is Informational.},
}