| Internet-Draft | Agent Control Delivery Evidence | September 2026 |
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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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