Governed Action Receipt (GAR): A Canonical, Verifiable Record of Policy-Governed Actions — draft-lutar-governed-action-receipt-00
IETF individual Internet-Draft specifying the Governed Action Receipt (GAR): a compact, tamper-evident record binding actor, action, policy digest, decision outcome (closed vocabulary — UNKNOWN is never PASS), byte-level subject digests, and evidence references. Canonicalized with RFC 8785, carried in DSSE envelopes (Ed25519) or honestly unsigned under the *.unsigned.json naming convention, and linkable into append-only hash-chained logs with the tail-truncation limitation stated explicitly. The specification matches the reference implementation (szl-receipts 14.0.0, Apache-2.0) statement for statement; every worked example is computed by the library at build time and independently re-derived by the validator. idnits 2.17.1: 0 errors. Files: draft-lutar-governed-action-receipt-00.txt (rendered, 33pp), .md (kramdown source), build_draft.py, validate_draft.py.
Authors
- Stephen Paul Jr. Lutar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0110-4173)
Institutions
- Technology Holding (United States) (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22217725
- Primary Topic
- Access Control and Trust
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00