I-D Action: draft-ehstand-oversight-acts-00.txt

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   Title:   Terminology for Human Oversight Acts in Automated and Agentic Systems
   Author:  Andreas Ehstand
   Name:    draft-ehstand-oversight-acts-00.txt
   Pages:   23
   Dates:   2026-09-26

Abstract:

   Records produced by automated and agentic systems often represent
   human oversight as a single, undifferentiated event, such as an
   approval flag or a confirmation.  Such a record does not say whether
   the person was shown an output, determined whether a named property
   of it holds, chose a course of action, or permitted an action, and
   consumers of the record may treat a confirmation click as if it were
   a check.

   This document defines terms for four kinds of human oversight act
   (observation, check, decision, and release) and for related concepts:
   the oversight act and the overseer, the named property, standing
   authority, the oversight record, the undifferentiated approval, the
   check step, error detectability, the fail-open check step, and the
   check test.  It states what a record of each kind of act is, and is
   not, evidence of, and relates the terms to existing vocabularies.
   The document defines terminology only.  It specifies no protocol,
   data format, procedure, or measurement method.

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