I-D Action: draft-abak-agent-control-delivery-evidence-01.txt

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Internet-Draft draft-abak-agent-control-delivery-evidence-01.txt is now
available.

   Title:   Evidence Requirements for Agent Control Delivery and Outcome Reconciliation
   Author:  Ali Toygar Abak
   Name:    draft-abak-agent-control-delivery-evidence-01.txt
   Pages:   46
   Dates:   2026-09-04

Abstract:

   Agent systems can issue stop, suspend, revoke, constrain, cancel, or
   override instructions across system and administrative boundaries.  A
   record that such a control was decided or dispatched does not
   establish that every intended enforcement point received or applied
   it.  Conversely, the absence of an acknowledgement does not, by
   itself, establish non-delivery.

   This document defines format-independent evidence requirements for
   preserving those distinctions.  It separates issuer-side emission,
   required-target resolution, receiver-side observation, enforcement
   outcome, and observation of the resulting control effect.  For a
   control that must reach more than one enforcement target, the unit of
   delivery reconciliation is an instruction-target obligation rather
   than the parent instruction alone.  The document also defines bounded
   negative observations, total reconciliation, population conservation,
   semantic-preservation requirements for intermediary paths, and a
   separate qualification for the evidentiary strength of aggregate
   claims.

   This document does not define a receipt format, wire protocol,
   authorization system, policy language, transparency service, or audit
   regime.

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