@techreport{ovidi-lip-4d-00,
    number =    {draft-ovidi-lip-4d-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-ovidi-lip-4d/00/},
    author =    {Angelo Ovidi},
    title =     {{LIP-4D: An Intent Context and Authorization Dialogue Protocol for Autonomous Agents}},
    pagetotal = 19,
    year =      2026,
    month =     jul,
    day =       30,
    abstract =  {This document specifies LIP-4D, an experimental, transport- independent JSON protocol for expressing and evaluating the intent of autonomous software agents. A LIP-4D exchange binds an authenticated agent to a requested action, purpose, execution context, rationale claims, evidence, time constraints, and an evolution history. A policy enforcement component can challenge the agent for additional evidence and, after evaluation, issue a short-lived intent-bound authorization grant or deny the request. LIP-4D does not replace workload identity, cryptographic authentication, OAuth, or other authorization frameworks. It supplies a structured intent and evidence layer that can be used with those systems. The protocol deliberately excludes private model chain-of-thought and instead carries concise, reviewable claims and verifiable evidence.},
}