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Decision-Subject Representation for Agent Authorization
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Web Authorization Protocol                                 A. A. Aravind
Internet-Draft                                    Independent Researcher
Intended status: Informational                              19 July 2026
Expires: 20 January 2027

        Decision-Subject Representation for Agent Authorization
                draft-aravind-oauth-decision-subject-00

Abstract

   This document defines dsub, an OPTIONAL, descriptive claim naming the
   *decision subject*, the party an automated agent's action is taken
   _upon_, as distinct from the acting agent (act) and the delegating
   principal (sub).  Its purpose is *audit legibility*: letting a record
   name the party a decision concerns, which is the precondition for
   that record ever being made legible to them.  The claim is privacy-
   minimizing by construction and is NOT an input to the authorization
   decision; a Policy Decision Point MUST ignore it.  This document
   defines representation only.

About This Document

   This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC.

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   subject/.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  When dsub applies (and when it MUST be omitted) . . . . . . .   4
   4.  The claim is descriptive, not authorizing . . . . . . . . . .   5
   5.  Container (which record carries it, and why not the access
           token)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   6.  Privacy considerations (design premise, not a footnote) . . .   5
   7.  Security considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   8.  Non-goals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   9.  Claim syntax  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   10. Relationship to existing mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   11. Considered alternatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   12. IANA considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   13. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     13.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     13.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   Appendix A.  Survey of existing mechanisms  . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14

1.  Introduction

   [RFC8693] and the agent-authorization profiles built on it model _who
   acts_ (act) and _who delegated_ (sub, [RFC7519]).  A growing class of
   agent actions are decisions made _about_ a third party who is neither
   the agent nor the delegator, and in the bystander case not the owner
   of the resource the action touches either.  For these there is no way
   to name the party the action concerns; the concrete consequence is
   that an audit record cannot be addressed to it.

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   The gap is practical, not merely theoretical.  In guardianship and
   delegated-operation cases, where one person operates a wallet that
   holds credentials for others, the presentation names the credential
   subject, but no independent record, one that records what was
   disclosed on their behalf, is addressed to the represented party.
   More generally, any pipeline that records denials, rankings, or
   eligibility outcomes as successful operator outputs leaves the party
   the outcome landed on unnamed. *The party the record most concerns is
   often the party the record leaves out.*

   Legal and institutional systems sometimes know that party (liability
   clauses, remedy schedules).  Technology-layer records frequently do
   not.  This document supplies a minimal name for the role so that
   technology-layer records can carry it.

   This document is orthogonal to the actor/principal work, not a
   correction of it: the Actor Profile describes the acting chain; dsub
   names the object of the action.  Where the decision subject is the
   delegating principal (an agent acting on the user's own resources),
   dsub is absent.  Naming _who operated_ is a distinct companion gap,
   addressed in the separate operator-of-record draft [OPR].

2.  Terminology

   *  *Decision subject* (dsub): the party an action is taken _upon_
      (sometimes called the _affected party_ in accountability
      literature).  The wire claim is dsub.

   *  *Delegating principal* (sub, [RFC7519] / [RFC8693]).

   *  *Agent / actor* (act, [RFC8693]).

   *  *Resource* / *resource owner* ([RFC9396] / AuthZEN).

   *  *Decision-subject handle*: a pseudonymous, purpose-bound reference
      to the decision subject (Section 6).

   *  *Auditor*: the reader of audit records (Section 4 of
      [I-D.kuehlewind-audit-architecture]); dsub is written for this
      reader.

   *Not the authorization subject.* In OAuth (sub), AuthZEN [AuthZEN],
   and XACML, "subject" is the party _making or authorized for_ a
   request: the acting side.  The decision subject is the party a
   request is _about_. In the AuthZEN encoding (Section 9) the
   authorization subject is the agent and the decision subject appears
   only under context; a reader who maps "decision subject" onto the
   authorization subject has inverted the role.  More broadly, the

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   decision subject is an *independent role, defined by the decision and
   its consequence* rather than by credential contents, authorization,
   or data processing: it may coincide with the credential subject, the
   delegating principal, or the resource owner in the simple case (a
   party acting on itself), and remains a distinct semantic role in
   every case, though the claim is omitted on the wire whenever that
   party is already named by sub or the resource (Section 3).

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
   14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

3.  When dsub applies (and when it MUST be omitted)

      dsub MUST be omitted when the decision subject is the delegating
      principal (sub) OR is already identifiable as the owner of the
      named resource.  It MUST be included ONLY when a *distinct third
      party* is the subject of the action or decision.

   +==============================+=====================+==============+
   | The party you mean           | Name it with...     | Already in   |
   | is...                        |                     | the request? |
   +==============================+=====================+==============+
   | the object the               | resource ([RFC9396] | yes          |
   | action reads/writes          | / AuthZEN)          |              |
   +------------------------------+---------------------+--------------+
   | the controller/owner         | dereference from    | yes          |
   | of that object               | resource            |              |
   +------------------------------+---------------------+--------------+
   | the human the                | *dsub*              | *no (the     |
   | decision is *about*,         |                     | gap)*        |
   | who may own nothing          |                     |              |
   +------------------------------+---------------------+--------------+

                                  Table 1

   *Worked example (bystander).* An agent posts a statement _about
   Carol_ on _Dave's_ timeline, on behalf of user _U_. sub = U; resource
   = Dave's timeline; owner = Dave; dsub = *Carol*, neither the resource
   nor its owner.  Without dsub, Carol is unnameable on the record.

   *Worked example (eligibility).* An agent screens applicant _A_ for
   product _P_ on behalf of lender _L_. sub = L; resource = P (or the
   application object); dsub = *A*. The decision is _about_ A even when
   A never holds a token in the exchange.

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   In every case where the subject coincides with sub or the resource
   owner, dsub adds nothing and MUST be omitted, which is what keeps it
   from being the resource owner, re-labelled.

4.  The claim is descriptive, not authorizing

   A Policy Decision Point MUST ignore dsub when rendering allow/deny.
   The claim carries no authority and grants none; its sole function is
   *audit legibility*: naming the party a decision is about. dsub adds a
   role to the _record_ without adding any path to privilege.

   Readership is bound to the Auditor role. dsub is written to appear in
   audit records and, at most, in the decision-time context an Auditor
   later reads, never as a decision input.  Deployments that key
   authorization on dsub are non-conformant with this document.

5.  Container (which record carries it, and why not the access token)

   The decision subject is determined *per action*. An OAuth *access
   token* is per-session, minted before target selection, and flows to a
   party that is not the subject: the wrong container on timing and
   privacy grounds.  This document does *not* define dsub as an access-
   token claim.

   Conformant containers, in preference order:

   1.  *Audit records (PRIMARY).* A SCITT signed statement / COSE
       Receipt ([RFC9943] / [RFC9942]), or a typed record under
       [I-D.kuehlewind-audit-architecture].  Integrity from the
       signature over the statement.

   2.  *AuthZEN evaluation-context attribute (RECOMMENDED for live
       PEPs).* Carried as context.decision_subject, the single AuthZEN
       context key defined for this claim (a JWT-encoded context uses
       the registered name dsub), recorded by the PDP shell without
       being passed to the decision engine.

   3.  *Transaction token (OPTIONAL).*
       [I-D.ietf-oauth-transaction-tokens] (per-action container).

6.  Privacy considerations (design premise, not a footnote)

   The decision subject is frequently a data subject not party to the
   exchange.  Data minimization is the design premise:

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   1.  The handle MUST be a pseudonymous, purpose-bound reference.  It
       MUST NOT be a re-identifiable global identifier (no raw email,
       national ID number, account number, or stable cross-context
       subject identifier).

   2.  It SHOULD be a per-purpose pairwise pseudonym, so the same
       natural person is not linkable across purposes or deployments
       without authorized resolution.

   3.  It SHOULD be resolvable only by parties authorized to act on the
       subject's behalf.  Resolution itself is out of scope (Section 8).

   4.  *Addressability is not visibility.* The role is defined to be
       _invocable by the party against the record_, not _legible on the
       artefact_. Where publishing the marker itself would cause harm,
       the record carries only the pseudonymous handle and routes any
       resolution through governed back-end attributes.

   This document enables _expression_ of a role often already present in
   unstructured form.  It does not authorize any new collection of
   personal data.

7.  Security considerations

   Because the claim is non-authorizing (Section 4), a forged dsub
   cannot escalate privilege.  Integrity derives from the signature over
   its container.

   *  An *unsigned* dsub MUST NOT be trusted to identify or address a
      party.

   *  The residual risk is mis-addressing, bounded by the handle's
      resolution authority (out of scope).

   *  Implementations that strip dsub (or context.decision_subject) from
      the evaluation input before the decision engine runs are
      conformant with Section 4 by construction.

8.  Non-goals

   This document does NOT define:

   *  remedy or adjudication;

   *  consent or its capture;

   *  any obligation owed to the decision subject;

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   *  *reachability / a resolution mechanism* for the handle (deferred
      to a resolver draft);

   *  a requestable-denial / escalation / contestation mechanism
      (subject-side challenge / ARAP domain);

   *  a transport binding;

   *  mandatory presence of the claim;

   *  use as an authorization input;

   *  any new personal-data collection.

   Naming is the precondition for later reachability work.  It is not
   that work.

9.  Claim syntax

   dsub is a decision-subject reference, or an array of them (an action
   MAY concern several subjects).  A reference is either:

   *  a *string*, a bare pseudonymous handle; or

   *  an *object* with:

      -  handle (string, REQUIRED)

      -  scheme (string, OPTIONAL): handle namespace / resolution scheme

      -  purpose (string, OPTIONAL): purpose binding for pairwise
         isolation

   No endpoint, URI, or contact field is defined here (deferred
   addressability work).  Absent a distinct third-party subject
   (Section 3), dsub is omitted.

   *AuthZEN evaluation-context encoding (RECOMMENDED):*

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   {
     "subject":  { "type": "Agent", "id": "agent-7f3a" },
     "action":   { "name": "Screen" },
     "resource": { "type": "Application", "id": "app-42" },
     "context":  {
       "decision_subject": {
         "handle": "ppid:9c1e...a4",
         "scheme": "pairwise-sha256",
         "purpose": "eligibility-audit"
       }
     }
   }

   *JWT / SCITT-style signed statement encoding:*

   {
     "iss": "https://issuer.example",
     "iat": 1751000000,
     "sub": "lender-L",
     "act": { "sub": "agent-7f3a" },
     "dsub": {
       "handle": "ppid:9c1e...a4",
       "scheme": "pairwise-sha256",
       "purpose": "eligibility-audit"
     }
   }

10.  Relationship to existing mechanisms

   *  *[RFC8693] (act / sub / may_act).* Names the actor and the
      delegating principal. dsub adds an orthogonal role: the party
      acted _upon_. No semantic overlap.

   *  *Actor Profile [I-D.mcguinness-oauth-actor-profile].* Classifies
      the actor's identity/type; dsub is the object of the action, not
      the actor.  They compose.

   *  *ARAP [ARAP] (OpenID AuthZEN Access Request and Approval
      Profile).* Access Request Endpoint + approver routing; a denial
      stays a denial. dsub names a party and supplies no mechanism.  A
      future subject-side challenge profile that makes notice/correction
      reachable by the subject would reference dsub.

   *  *Transaction tokens [I-D.ietf-oauth-transaction-tokens]; SCITT
      ([RFC9943] / [RFC9942]).* Conformant per-action / signed
      containers giving dsub its integrity.

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   *  *Attenuating agent tokens
      [I-D.niyikiza-oauth-attenuating-agent-tokens].* Omits sub; dsub
      remains independently expressible.

   *  *Audit architecture [I-D.kuehlewind-audit-architecture].* Typed
      Auditor-facing records; subject legibility remains an open gap
      that dsub unblocks by naming the party.

   *  *EMILIA Protocol (EP) + cross-org delegation mapping (WIMSE, Jul
      2026).* The EP drafts ([I-D.schrock-human-authorization-binding],
      [I-D.schrock-ep-action-evidence-graph],
      [I-D.schrock-ep-authority-introduction]), mapped in
      [I-D.rampalli-cross-org-delegation-mapping], bind evidence to the
      action digest and the named principal and hold that _verified_ and
      _accepted_ are separate results; *neither implies sufficiency*.
      dsub is orthogonal: it names the party a decision is _about_ (a
      role EP does not model) and composes with, rather than competes
      with, that evidence-sufficiency work.

   *  *CAEP reason_admin / reason_user (signed SETs, [RFC8417]).*
      Precedent that an integrity-protected party-facing surface belongs
      in a signed record.

   *  *Operator of record [OPR] (companion).* Marks _who operated_;
      independent of, and composes with, dsub.

11.  Considered alternatives

      +=======================+=====================================+
      | Alternative           | Why it does not cover dsub          |
      +=======================+=====================================+
      | [RFC9396]             | An _authorization_ construct;       |
      | authorization_details | contradicts Section 4; targets the  |
      | (RAR)                 | resource, not a bystander subject.  |
      +-----------------------+-------------------------------------+
      | A nested / second sub | sub is the delegating principal     |
      |                       | ([RFC7519] / [RFC8693]);            |
      |                       | overloading it reintroduces         |
      |                       | authorization semantics.            |
      +-----------------------+-------------------------------------+
      | resource indicator    | Names the object acted on, not the  |
      | ([RFC8707]) / AuthZEN | human the decision is about.        |
      | resource              |                                     |
      +-----------------------+-------------------------------------+
      | A private / vendor    | No cross-boundary interop; the      |
      | claim                 | reason to register one descriptive  |
      |                       | claim.                              |
      +-----------------------+-------------------------------------+

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      | W3C VC                | Scopes what a credential _asserts_  |
      | credentialSubject     | and presents; says nothing about a  |
      | ([VCDM20])            | decision made using it, or made     |
      |                       | without any credential.  May be the |
      |                       | same party as dsub, or not: dsub    |
      |                       | names the party a decision _lands   |
      |                       | on_, who may present nothing.       |
      +-----------------------+-------------------------------------+
      | "Data subject" (GDPR  | A legal role keyed to personal-data |
      | Art. 4)               | _processing_. dsub is a protocol    |
      |                       | role keyed to a _decision and its   |
      |                       | consequence_, not data processing;  |
      |                       | putting the legal term on the wire  |
      |                       | would import a regulatory model     |
      |                       | this claim does not assert.         |
      +-----------------------+-------------------------------------+

                                  Table 2

12.  IANA considerations

   This document requests registration of one entry in the JSON Web
   Token Claims registry established by [RFC7519].  The registration
   policy for that registry is Specification Required (Section 10.1 of
   [RFC7519]).  Registration proceeds through a three-week review on the
   jwt-reg-review@ietf.org list.

   +=======+======================+===================+===============+
   | Claim | Claim Description    | Change Controller | Specification |
   | Name  |                      |                   | Document(s)   |
   +=======+======================+===================+===============+
   | dsub  | Decision Subject:    | Anivar A.         | This document |
   |       | the party an action  | Aravind           |               |
   |       | or decision is taken | (ping@anivar.net) |               |
   |       | upon; descriptive,   |                   |               |
   |       | non-authorizing.     |                   |               |
   +-------+----------------------+-------------------+---------------+

                                 Table 3

13.  References

13.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2119>.

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   [RFC7519]  Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, "JSON Web Token
              (JWT)", RFC 7519, DOI 10.17487/RFC7519, May 2015,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7519>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8174>.

   [RFC8693]  Jones, M., Nadalin, A., Campbell, B., Ed., Bradley, J.,
              and C. Mortimore, "OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange", RFC 8693,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8693, January 2020,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8693>.

13.2.  Informative References

   [ARAP]     OpenID Foundation, "OpenID AuthZEN Access Request and
              Approval Profile 1.0", 17 July 2026,
              <https://openid.net/specs/authzen-access-request-approval-
              profile-1_0.html>.

   [AuthZEN]  OpenID Foundation, "Authorization API 1.0", 11 January
              2026, <https://openid.net/specs/authorization-api-
              1_0-final.html>.

   [I-D.ietf-oauth-transaction-tokens]
              Tulshibagwale, A., Fletcher, G., and P. Kasselman,
              "Transaction Tokens", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft,
              draft-ietf-oauth-transaction-tokens-09, 6 July 2026,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-oauth-
              transaction-tokens-09>.

   [I-D.kuehlewind-audit-architecture]
              Kühlewind, M. and H. Birkholz, "An Architecture for
              Auditing AI Agent Delegation and Interactions", Work in
              Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-kuehlewind-audit-
              architecture-00, 18 May 2026,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-kuehlewind-
              audit-architecture-00>.

   [I-D.mcguinness-oauth-actor-profile]
              McGuinness, K., "OAuth Actor Profile for Delegation", Work
              in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-mcguinness-oauth-actor-
              profile-00, 30 April 2026,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-mcguinness-
              oauth-actor-profile-00>.

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   [I-D.niyikiza-oauth-attenuating-agent-tokens]
              Aimable, N., "Attenuating Authorization Tokens for Agentic
              Delegation Chains", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft,
              draft-niyikiza-oauth-attenuating-agent-tokens-01, 15 June
              2026, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-
              niyikiza-oauth-attenuating-agent-tokens-01>.

   [I-D.rampalli-cross-org-delegation-mapping]
              Karthik, R., "A Layered Requirements Mapping for Cross-
              Organization Agent Delegation", Work in Progress,
              Internet-Draft, draft-rampalli-cross-org-delegation-
              mapping-05, 6 July 2026,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-rampalli-
              cross-org-delegation-mapping-05>.

   [I-D.schrock-ep-action-evidence-graph]
              Schrock, I., "Action Evidence Graphs and Evidence Policy
              Replay for High-Risk Agent Actions (EP-AEG)", Work in
              Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-schrock-ep-action-
              evidence-graph-00, 3 July 2026,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-schrock-ep-
              action-evidence-graph-00>.

   [I-D.schrock-ep-authority-introduction]
              Schrock, I., "Authority Documents and Scoped Authority for
              Agent-Action Evidence", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft,
              draft-schrock-ep-authority-introduction-01, 19 July 2026,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-schrock-ep-
              authority-introduction-01>.

   [I-D.schrock-human-authorization-binding]
              Schrock, I., "Binding Named-Human Authorization Evidence
              into Agent-Action Records", Work in Progress, Internet-
              Draft, draft-schrock-human-authorization-binding-00, 3
              July 2026, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-
              schrock-human-authorization-binding-00>.

   [OPR]      Aravind, A. A., "Operator-of-Record: an Origination Marker
              for Agent-Operated Presentations and Decisions", Work in
              Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-aravind-oauth-operator-of-
              record-00, 2026, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/
              draft-aravind-oauth-operator-of-record-00>.

   [RFC8417]  Hunt, P., Ed., Jones, M., Denniss, W., and M. Ansari,
              "Security Event Token (SET)", RFC 8417,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8417, July 2018,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8417>.

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   [RFC8707]  Campbell, B., Bradley, J., and H. Tschofenig, "Resource
              Indicators for OAuth 2.0", RFC 8707, DOI 10.17487/RFC8707,
              February 2020, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8707>.

   [RFC9396]  Lodderstedt, T., Richer, J., and B. Campbell, "OAuth 2.0
              Rich Authorization Requests", RFC 9396,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC9396, May 2023,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9396>.

   [RFC9942]  Steele, O., Birkholz, H., Delignat-Lavaud, A., and C.
              Fournet, "CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE)
              Receipts", RFC 9942, DOI 10.17487/RFC9942, June 2026,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9942>.

   [RFC9943]  Birkholz, H., Delignat-Lavaud, A., Fournet, C., Deshpande,
              Y., and S. Lasker, "An Architecture for Trustworthy and
              Transparent Digital Supply Chains", RFC 9943,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC9943, June 2026,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9943>.

   [VCDM20]   World Wide Web Consortium, "Verifiable Credentials Data
              Model v2.0", 15 May 2025,
              <https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model-2.0/>.

Appendix A.  Survey of existing mechanisms

   Each mechanism below was checked against its current published
   version; none carries a role naming the party a decision is about,
   which is the gap dsub fills.

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      +=======================+=============+=======================+
      | Spec                  | Rev / date  | Role it provides      |
      +=======================+=============+=======================+
      | RFC 8693 Sec. 4.1 /   | Pub. Jan    | act=actor,            |
      | 1.1                   | 2020        | sub=principal-acted-  |
      |                       |             | for                   |
      +-----------------------+-------------+-----------------------+
      | draft-mcguinness-     | -00, 30 Apr | act / actor           |
      | oauth-actor-profile   | 2026        | classification        |
      +-----------------------+-------------+-----------------------+
      | ARAP                  | OpenID      | Access Request        |
      |                       | AuthZEN WG  | Endpoint              |
      |                       | Draft 1, 17 |                       |
      |                       | Jul 2026    |                       |
      +-----------------------+-------------+-----------------------+
      | draft-kuehlewind-     | -00, 18 May | typed records;        |
      | audit-architecture    | 2026        | subject legibility    |
      |                       |             | OPEN                  |
      +-----------------------+-------------+-----------------------+
      | draft-hardt-oauth-    | -09, 4 Jul  | person-accountable    |
      | aauth-protocol        | 2026        | framing               |
      +-----------------------+-------------+-----------------------+
      | draft-ietf-oauth-     | -09, 6 Jul  | per-action container  |
      | transaction-tokens    | 2026, WGLC  |                       |
      +-----------------------+-------------+-----------------------+
      | draft-niyikiza-oauth- | -01         | omits sub             |
      | attenuating-agent-    |             |                       |
      | tokens                |             |                       |
      +-----------------------+-------------+-----------------------+
      | SCITT                 | RFC 9943 +  | audit container       |
      |                       | RFC 9942,   |                       |
      |                       | Jun 2026    |                       |
      +-----------------------+-------------+-----------------------+
      | CAEP / signed SET     | RFC 8417    | integrity-protected   |
      | reasons               | family      | party surface         |
      |                       |             | precedent             |
      +-----------------------+-------------+-----------------------+
      | draft-rampalli-cross- | -05, 6 Jul  | evidence-sufficiency: |
      | org-delegation-       | 2026        | verified != accepted, |
      | mapping (+ EMILIA/EP  | (WIMSE)     | neither implies       |
      | draft-schrock-*)      |             | sufficiency; no       |
      |                       |             | decision-subject role |
      +-----------------------+-------------+-----------------------+

                                  Table 4

Author's Address

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   Anivar A. Aravind
   Independent Researcher
   Email: ping@anivar.net
   URI:   https://anivar.net

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