Veritas Acta IETF Internet-Drafts

This repository contains the source for IETF Internet-Drafts published by the Veritas Acta protocol project.

Drafts

draft-farley-acta-signed-receipts

Signed Decision Receipts for Machine-to-Machine Access Control

Defines a portable, cryptographically signed receipt format for recording machine-to-machine access control decisions. Each receipt captures the decision maker, the tool or resource accessed, the policy evaluation result, and a timestamp, all signed with Ed25519 and serialized using JCS (RFC 8785).

• Status: Active, Individual Submission
• Datatracker: draft-farley-acta-signed-receipts
• Current revision: -01
• Verifier: npx @veritasacta/verify@0.2.5 (Apache-2.0, offline, zero dependencies)

draft-farley-acta-knowledge-units

Knowledge Units for Multi-Model Deliberation

Defines the Knowledge Unit (KU) format for representing verified knowledge produced through structured multi-model deliberation. A KU captures the question asked, models that participated, consensus achieved, points of agreement and disagreement, and cryptographic receipts binding each deliberation round.

• Status: Submitted, Individual Submission
• Current revision: -00
• Live implementation: acta.today/wiki (50+ Knowledge Units)
• Specification: acta.today/wiki/spec

Relationship Between Drafts

The Knowledge Units draft builds on the Signed Receipts draft. Each round of a multi-model deliberation produces a signed receipt per draft-farley-acta-signed-receipts. The KU binds these per-round receipts into a hash chain, creating a single verifiable artifact for the entire deliberation.

Signed Receipts (envelope format)
    |
    +-- Knowledge Units (content schema + deliberation process)
            |
            +-- Round 1 receipts (independent model responses)
            +-- Round 2 receipts (adversarial critique)
            +-- Round 3 receipt (synthesis)

Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome. The drafts follow IETF conventions (RFC 2119 key words, xml2rfc v3 format).

References

• Veritas Acta Protocol
• Receipt Verifier (Apache-2.0)
• protect-mcp (MIT, reference implementation)
• protect-mcp-adk (MIT, Python, Google ADK plugin)
• Live Knowledge Base
• VeritasActa/Acta -- Protocol implementation and wiki
• ScopeBlind/scopeblind-gateway -- MCP gateway with Cedar policy engine
• ScopeBlind/examples -- Integration examples and interop scenarios

License

The IETF Trust's Legal Provisions apply to these documents. See the copyright notices in each draft.