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   <front>
      <title>Intent Provenance Protocol (IPP)</title>
      <author initials="A." surname="Haberkamp" fullname="Amanda Haberkamp">
         <organization>KH Sovereign, Inc.</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="March" day="16" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This document specifies the Intent Provenance Protocol (IPP), a
   cryptographic infrastructure standard for carrying verified human
   intent through chains of autonomous artificial intelligence agent
   actions.  IPP defines the Intent Token -- a signed, bounded, and
   tamper-evident data structure that travels with every agentic action,
   preserving an unbroken, auditable lineage from the originating human
   principal to each terminal action executed on their behalf.

   As AI agents become primary actors in enterprise environments --
   executing transactions, accessing sensitive data, orchestrating sub-
   agents, and operating across organizational boundaries -- the absence
   of a shared trust substrate creates systemic risk to organizational
   accountability, regulatory compliance, and legal liability
   attribution.  IPP addresses this gap by establishing a protocol layer
   that operates above cryptographic authentication and below
   application logic, making human intent a first-class, verifiable
   primitive in agentic systems.

   IPP introduces four foundational properties -- Lineage, Boundedness,
   Non-repudiation, and Interoperability -- enforced through a
   combination of Ed25519 digital signatures, Decentralized Identifiers
   (DIDs), and a Narrowing Invariant that prevents any derived token
   from exceeding its parent&#x27;s authorized scope.  The protocol is
   framework-agnostic, cloud-agnostic, and designed for open
   implementation across the ecosystem of AI orchestration platforms.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-haberkamp-ipp-00" />
   
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