§46 · Lane 8 — Agent Infrastructure Standards & Toolchain
IETF Internet-Draft — Agent Audit Trail
Sharif (2026) · draft-sharif-agent-audit-trail-00
Bibliographic data
- Title
- IETF Internet-Draft — Agent Audit Trail (draft-sharif-agent-audit-trail-00)
- Authors / Issuing body
- R. Sharif (CyberSecAI Ltd)
- Venue / Publisher
- Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) — individual Internet-Draft (not WG-adopted)
- Year
- 2026
- Designation
- internet-draft
- Licence
- IETF Trust LP — refer to publisher for full licence terms.
How to cite
Sharif (2026). IETF Internet-Draft — Agent Audit Trail (draft-sharif-agent-audit-trail-00). Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) — individual Internet-Draft (not WG-adopted). https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sharif-agent-audit-trail/.
JSON-based, tamper-evident audit log format for autonomous AI agents, with SHA-256 hash chaining per RFC 8785 and optional ECDSA signatures for non-repudiation.
Why it matters for NETEVO
The Agent Infrastructure Whitepaper Dimension 3 (audit and observability) is the architectural surface where this draft applies. Mandatory record fields cover agent identity, action classification, outcome tracking and trust level; records are linked by hash chaining (RFC 8785 JSON canonicalisation) with optional ECDSA for non-repudiation. Export to JSONL, Syslog (RFC 5424) and CSV.
This is the load-bearing forensic-traceability anchor for the Implicit Authority Cascade framing — the standardised, tamper-evident agent log is the evidentiary substrate for reconstructing an authority cascade after the fact.
The draft maps its requirements to the EU AI Act logging mandate, ISO/IEC 42001, SOC 2 and PCI DSS — a useful cross-jurisdictional bridge. This is an individual submission, not Working-Group-adopted, so it carries no formal IETF standing. NETEVO tracks the draft weekly during its active development phase and watches for the next revision and for Working-Group adoption.
Where NETEVO applies this
- Agent Infrastructure Whitepaper — load-bearing — Dimension 3 (audit and observability)