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The Entity Attestation Token (EAT)
RFC 9711

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2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['signing', 'attestation', 'cbor']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "C. Wallace": changed name from "Carl Wallace" to "C. Wallace"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "J. O'Donoghue": changed name from "Jeremy O'Donoghue" to "J. O'Donoghue", cleared country (was "United Kingdom")
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "G. Mandyam": changed name from "Giridhar Mandyam" to "G. Mandyam", cleared affiliation (was "Mediatek USA")
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "L. Lundblade": changed name from "Laurence Lundblade" to "L. Lundblade"
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2025-10-28
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Verified Errata tag)
2025-08-09
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Errata tag)
2025-06-27
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (removed Errata tag (all errata rejected))
2025-05-02
(System) Received changes through RFC Editor sync (added Errata tag)
2025-05-01
(System) IANA registries were updated to include RFC9711
2025-04-30
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created document RFC 9711, created became rfc relationship between draft-ietf-rats-eat and RFC 9711, set abstract to 'An …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created document RFC 9711, created became rfc relationship between draft-ietf-rats-eat and RFC 9711, set abstract to 'An Entity Attestation Token (EAT) provides an attested claims set that describes the state and characteristics of an entity, a device such as a smartphone, an Internet of Things (IoT) device, network equipment, or such. This claims set is used by a relying party, server, or service to determine the type and degree of trust placed in the entity.

An EAT is either a CBOR Web Token (CWT) or a JSON Web Token (JWT) with attestation-oriented claims.', set pages to 85, set standardization level to Proposed Standard, added RFC published event at 2025-04-30)
2025-04-30
(System) RFC published