@techreport{teodor-pilot-protocol-01,
    number =    {draft-teodor-pilot-protocol-01},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-teodor-pilot-protocol/01/},
    author =    {Teodor-Ioan Calin},
    title =     {{Pilot Protocol: An Overlay Network for Autonomous Agent Communication}},
    pagetotal = 43,
    year =      2026,
    month =     apr,
    day =       6,
    abstract =  {This document specifies Pilot Protocol, an overlay network that provides autonomous AI agents with virtual addresses, port-based service multiplexing, reliable and unreliable transport, NAT traversal, encrypted tunnels, and a bilateral trust model. Pilot Protocol operates as a network and transport layer beneath application-layer agent protocols such as A2A and MCP. It encapsulates virtual packets in UDP datagrams for transit over the existing Internet. The protocol gives agents first-class network citizenship --- stable identities, reachable addresses, and standard transport primitives --- independent of their underlying network infrastructure.},
}