Protocols

Internet-Drafts I wrote or co-wrote at the IETF. None has been adopted as a standard yet.

Signing in on the web

Acts-For: Signing In to a Website with a ~handle, for a Person or an Agent Acting for One
Sign in with one name at any website that publishes one DNS record, or have your AI do it for you.
The 'alter' URI Scheme for Dispatchable ~handle References
A link format for a ~handle that the reader can resolve and verify.
The did:alter Decentralized Identifier Method
Lets a ~handle work as a decentralised identifier, resolved through the DNS zone that publishes it.
Identity Pronouns: A Reference-Axis Extension to ~handle Identity Systems
Words like ~org stand for a real ~handle inside a session and are swapped for it before anything leaves.

Discovery of Model Context Protocol Servers via DNS TXT Records
An AI finds a company's tools through DNS and can check who runs them.
An IANA Registry for Model Context Protocol Tool Surface Names
An official public list of the names that AI tools are called by.

Consent-Bound Identity Disclosure with Subject Settlement for HTTP-Native Agent Payments
When an AI pays to read something about a person, the read needs that person's consent and part of the payment goes to them.
The Compute-Location Gate: Provenance-Class Routing of Identity Inference with Wire-Layer Refusal of Unconsented Provenance Classes
Before anything is inferred about a person, the client and server agree where it runs based on how the information was collected.
Registration of Owner-Less Agents as Sponsored Payees: A Payment-Gated Admission Profile for Transparency Services
An AI with no owner registers to be paid and the money goes to its sponsor or is held in trust.

Authorised and Attributable Agent Authority for Operational-Technology Control Actions
An AI's command to industrial equipment is refused unless it proves who it acts for and that a person authorised it.
Identity Evidence for Approver Enrollment and Payee Destination Binding
Proof of who someone is can support a high-stakes action and never stands in for permission to do it.
The Briefing-and-Binding Envelope: A Delivery Contract for Agent-to-Principal Decision Moments with Dual-Veto Reconciliation
How an AI puts a consequential decision to the person it acts for and how that person answers.

Policy Provision and Governance Inheritance from an Organisational Identity Substrate
An AI picks up its organisation's rules when a session starts and reports back to the same place.
The Morning Brief: A Federated, Identity-Attested Situational-Awareness Payload
A signed, short-lived briefing between organisations and their AIs that can't carry anything quietly observed about one person.
Identity Accord Protocol: A Peer Ceremony for Bilateral Agreements Between Identity-Substrate-Bound Principals
Two organisations sign an agreement as one document that any third party can verify.

Substrate-Observation as an Alternative to Envelope Coordination for Concurrent Sessions
Concurrent AI sessions can coordinate by reading shared records, with no new message format to agree on.
An Agent-Channel Frame for Identity-Keyed Fan-Out Delivery to Concurrent Sessions
One short message reaches every AI session a person has running or every member of their organisation.

Live Reference Resolution for Autonomous Agent Beliefs
An AI checks each belief against its source when acting on it and marks it uncertain if it can't.
Claim Currency: A Read-Time Decay Evaluator and Observation-Gated Re-Assertion Discipline for Concurrent Readers of a Reconciled Substrate
A claim that has gone stale can't be repeated as current until someone checks it again.
Substrate-Provenance Annotation Grammar for Large-Language-Model Output
A label on each statement an AI makes that says where the statement came from.